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Integration of the former East Germany automatically introduces a special set of relationships with Eastern neighbors. "The cultural and economic links brought by the G.D.R. require Germany to develop a policy for Eastern Europe," says law professor Rupert Scholz, a former West German Defense Minister. That need is being accelerated by apprehension about instability and political fragility in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. "I am very much concerned at the shaky situation there," says Horst Teltschik, Kohl's top foreign policy adviser. "There is no stabilized democracy. They are in bad economic shape, and different ethnic groups are fighting...
Ronald Collins, a visiting associate law professor at Catholic University in Washington, has counted more than 600 cases in which the highest state courts have interpreted their states' constitutions to protect civil liberties more broadly than does the Supreme Court. About 60% of the decisions have come since 1980. What has made this movement possible is the long-standing legal principle that American states cannot provide less protection for individual $ rights than the U.S. Constitution, but they can provide more. And state decisions are immune from challenge at the federal level so long as they have an independent and adequate...
...government should determine that these arguments are invalid? Simple: just change the order. That can be done "at the whim of the President," says Michael Glennon, professor of law at the University of California at Davis. Capitol Hill sources assert that President Bush could issue a rewritten order, or, more likely, an "exception" to the standing one, and legally keep it secret. The only way to prevent that would be to write a prohibition against assassinations into law. After congressional investigations in the 1970s turned up evidence of CIA-sponsored assassination plots, attempts were made to enact such...
...students to understand that ethics is a part of their lives whether they like it or not," said panellist David B. Wilkins, an assistant professor...
...always good for a public institution tobe honest about its financial state," said GeorgeM. Whitesides '60, Mallinckrodt professor ofchemistry and a major player in the Faculty's funddrive planning...