Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most common targets of an alleged epidemic of police brutality are teenage males, whose very age and color make them suspect. "It's open season on youth as far as the police are concerned," says American Civil Liberties Union attorney Patricia Erickson. "When it comes to probable cause, youth, especially minority youth, are guilty until proven innocent." But critics say that even adult residents of gang-plagued neighborhoods occasionally have become victims of curbside justice dispensed in the name of fighting crime...
...want to give something back to society, but they don't know how to begin. The really important problems, ranging from the national debt to homelessness, are too large and complex to comprehend. And always the great, intimidating shadow of 1960s-style activism hovers in the background. Twentysomething youths suspect that today's attempts at political and social action pale in comparison with the excitement of draft dodging or freedom riding...
...back, Stanley rode openly with the rebels, but dressed in a burka, a head-to-toe Muslim garment. All went smoothly until a border policeman hitched a ride. He sat inches from our costumed journalists for a half-hour trip that seemed like an eternity. "He didn't suspect a thing," says Nachtwey. "Otherwise we would have gone to jail...
...Iraq a "country of concern," a classification that would impose tighter export controls on a long list of items that might have military applications. In the absence of such a classification, the Commerce Department is currently considering "on a case-by-case basis" 63 applications for licenses to export suspect equipment. The department did belatedly drop Iraq from the itinerary of a special aerospace trade mission by American firms to the Middle East, but the Administration's stance is still ambivalent...
College officials insist that legacy status is only considered as a tie-breaker between identically qualified candidates, a claim that is suspect by itself. But even if it were true, Harvard's policy amounts to giving the benefit of the tie to the fortuitously born--the absolute antithesis of the "level playing field...