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...against drugs. A decade of stepped-up antidrug efforts has already left its mark on American law and life. Powerful state and federal forfeiture laws permit the confiscation before trial of virtually any kind of property remotely involved in or "intended for use" in drug transactions. Drug-sniffing dogs search hallways in Houston public schools. Public housing officials in some cities have evicted the families of suspected drug users. Already, 43% of all businesses with 1,000 employees or more have drug-testing programs...
...speech last week, Bush called for even more drug testing. But some legal scholars complain that random drug testing of all employees, whether or not they are suspected of using illegal substances, disregards the venerable notion of "probable cause" -- that a search can be triggered only by a well- founded suspicion of criminal action by a particular individual. "When you start saying a search satisfies the Fourth Amendment even though it's not based on any focused suspicion at all, you've ripped the heart out of the Fourth Amendment," insists University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...
...suit filed by the A.C.L.U. resulted last month in a modification of those tactics. Visitors may now obtain guest cards allowing them to stay in a building for as long as two weeks. And housing agents and police have agreed to stop house and body searches. But the sweeps go on, to the relief of tenants. "It's so much better since the sweeps," says Delores Wilson, president of a tenants group. "Before, you could hear machine-gun fire all during the day." The danger is that as they search for a way out of the drug crisis, many other...
Other additions include a call-number search and a "trace" function to find related books in a particular subject, Tallent said...
...when Institute of Politics Director Richard L. Thornburgh left the job to head for Washington and the Justice Department after little more than a year at Harvard, the IOP search committee shifted gears...