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The Gates Case Isn't About Racenew

The weeks-long hubbub over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. by the Cambridge Police Department has centered on race, understandably. But the racial façade of the story has obscured two other bottom-line truths that should govern the "Gates-gate" conversation.
Boston Phoenix  |  Harvey Silverglate  |  08-06-2009  |  Civil Liberties
Tags: Cambridge Police Department, constitutional law, First Amendment Rights, Racial Issues, Social Issues, law, police, Harvard, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Life in Prison...For Punching a Man in the Facenew

Nearly 17 years ago, Joe Donovan initiated a tragic chain of events with a brutish act of machismo. But should he be in jail for life?
Boston Phoenix  |  Chris Faraone  |  08-06-2009  |  Crime & Justice
Tags: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment, Murder and Homicide, Tom Reilly, trials, crime, prisons, Led Zeppelin, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Criminal Trials

Judge Ungags Subway Hackersnew

Free speech has won in the struggle between the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and three MIT undergrads who claim to have uncovered flaws in the subway's electronic fare-collection system.
Boston Phoenix  |  Harvey Silverglate  |  08-21-2008  |  Civil Liberties
Tags: Ku Klux Klan, ACLU, transportation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, civil liberties, Charlie Cards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MBTA

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