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...Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote, ruled that the public has no constitutional right under the "public trial" guarantee of the Sixth Amendment to attend criminal trials. The ruling undercuts a fundamental assumption of open democracy. It is also by far the court's sharpest blow to the press in a long string of such adverse rulings. At its narrowest, the decision means that pre-trial hearings could be closed when the judge finds a defendant's rights may be prejudiced. At its worst, it means that during any criminal proceeding, whenever the defendant, prosecutor...
...census showed 530,000 unmarried male-female couples living together. Even then, the figure seemed unrealistically low, since many couples may have been too embarrassed to report such arrangements. Now the bureau lists 1.1 million "illicit" couples, with the sharpest rise occurring since 1977 in the under-25 category. Reasonably enough, the demographers attributed the trend to "an increasing desire among young adults to pursue nonfamilial interests...
Usually, it was expressed as concern about "losing Iran," or about the nation doing nothing when an American ambassador was shot down overseas, or about how the U.S. might-or might not-react if the Middle East oilfields were seized. The concern has found its sharpest focus in the argument over the SALT II treaty: whether it will leave the U.S. weaker, more vulnerable...
...their second game, the Crimson's ever-amazing defense had an Ursinus team running scared. Ursinus under-estimated the Harvard laxwomen, who were able to battle their way to a 3-2 lead at the half. Mleczko scored the Crimson's sharpest goal on another of her ready-made one-on-one drives. Receiving the ball behind the goal, Mleczko moved around the right side, used the cage for a pick and dropped a soft shot into the upper righthand corner...
Midway through the second half, the defense got a hand in on the game's sharpest goal. The ball came out to defense wing Anne Velie, who passed it to Chris Sailer at coverpoint. Sailer then jetted a perfect pass to Lisa Kent, who slung the ball in for a tally...