Word: sonly
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...afraid this is one of those painful moments when it is morally incumbent on the son to turn around and reproach his parents for not living up to their own moral standards," Damon said. "This is the richest university in the world, and the fact that the people who keep this machine running--who feed the students, look out for their safety and clean their bathrooms and hallways--are not given a living wage is demeaning...
...town overwhelmingly approves the new policy, including most of the students. After all, "why should you care if you don't have anything to hide?" One man, Larry Tannahill, did not have anything to hide--but he did care. He refused to give permission for his 12-year-old son to be tested. Tannahill's reasoning is eloquent in its simplicity: "Too many of our rights have been taken away. You just have to put your foot down somewhere." For acting on this simple statement of faith in the Bill of Rights the Tannahill family has become the target...
...basic legal issue is straightforward and simple. Does the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures trump the all but unanimous community desire to test its children for drugs? The American Civil Liberties Union, representing Tannahill and his son, will soon test the question of how far the government can go in overriding traditional constitutional restraints in its quest for a "drug-free America...
...play "A Man For All Seasons," Thomas More's son-in-law tells More that he would cut down all the laws in England to get the devil. More replies that he would give the devil himself the benefit of law for his own safety's sake--for after the laws were felled, nothing could withstand the winds that would howl, there being no place left to hide. The greatest casualty in the war on drugs has been chipping away of the forest of laws that represent our civil liberties. And no liberty has been pinched tighter than that against...
...afraid this is one of those painful moments when it is morally incumbent on the son to turn around and reproach his parents for not living up to their own moral standards," Damon said. "This is the richest university in the world, and the fact that the people who keep this machine running--who feed the students, look out for their safety and clean their bathrooms and hallways--are not given a living wage is demeaning...