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HARVEY SILVERGLATE

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The DEA’s bad-faith war on pain doctors
Things haven’t been going well as of late for Needham-based chronic-pain specialist Dr. Joseph Zolot.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  September 26, 2007

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The Big Dig in court: a citizen's primer

Freedom watch
The Big Dig may at long last be 99 percent completed, but the finger-pointing is just in the early stages.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  August 15, 2007

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It’s time for some real judicial activism

Freedom Watch
There is a time and a place for “judicial activism,” no matter what so-called conservatives say.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  May 09, 2007

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Why the Imus cave-in is bad for free speech, radio, and the whole society

Freedom watch
I was never a fan of Don Imus.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  April 19, 2007

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A judge speaks with candor about judicial cop-outs

Freedom watch
Rarely does an audience get to hear a sitting judge deliver anything more than the usual clichés about “blind justice” and the like.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  March 28, 2007

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Getting Justice back on track

Freedom Watch
There’s been more than a little political posturing over the latest Bush-administration scandal.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  March 21, 2007

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Gossip columnist escapes indictment

Get me rewrite
The much trumpeted federal investigation into allegations that a former New York Post gossip writer tried to extort a friend of former President Bill Clinton has been quietly dropped.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  March 07, 2007

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The artists are innocent

It's the media and politicians who blew this one
This was an obvious joke, as anyone under 25 would have known in an instant.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  February 02, 2007

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Are we freer than we were 40 years ago?

 
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  November 15, 2006

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Alumnus interruptus

How University, Inc. is controlling the message to its graduates — and funding base
Rather than take pride in the bi-monthly’s stellar 108-year-old reputation, university administrators effectively declared war on Harvard magazine earlier this year when they brought out an in-house competitor.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  November 16, 2006

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Gay marriage spreads to New Jersey, with caution

Freedom watch
Following largely in the footsteps of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s 2003 Goodridge decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court last week crafted its own legally and strategically brilliant decision that will extend equal-marriage rights to gay and lesbian residents of that state — but with a twist.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  November 01, 2006

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Oh, pardon me

Freedom watch
Forget all the hoopla: George W. Bush is still going to have to issue a flurry of pardons at the end of his term.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  September 27, 2006

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Blues and blood

Why does US attorney Michael Sullivan keep rewarding a wayward prosecutor with big-stakes public-corruption cases? Plus, remove that tattoo, son.
Something is rotten in Beantown — and the stench is emanating from the local branch of the Department of Justice.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  September 06, 2006

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Pardons are forever

To get his friends and allies out of the mess he created, George W. Bush is going to have to issue a slew of pardons
Prediction: Before leaving office, President Bush will issue a shockingly large number of presidential pardons to operatives who, with the administration’s blessing, ventured far outside the law to wage Bush’s “war on terror.” Who might need - and get - a pardon?: Legal advisers, high-level officials, covert operatives. By Harvey Silverglate
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  August 22, 2006

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The constitutional crisis no one seems to understand

Freedom watch does freezergate
The dolts in Congress let the imperial presidency get so out of hand that we are now faced with a truly nasty constitutional crisis.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  June 02, 2006

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Sleazy? Yes. Criminal? Probably not.

The New York Times has grown so gullible that it believed the spin on the Page Six scandal
As anyone attuned to sleaze and sensationalism is aware, the scandalmongers at the New York Post ’s Page Six are themselves engulfed in a scandal of tsunami-like proportions — at least in the world where reality is defined by People , Us , Star , and the  National Enquirer .
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  April 12, 2006

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The image of hypocrisy

Freedom watch
The 8”-by-10” photograph was hard to miss.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  March 29, 2006

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The Summers putsch goes awry

Freedom watch
The Harvard presidential putsch, engineered by a minority faction of the Arts and Sciences faculty, may yet fail to accomplish the second half of its goal: to determine Lawrence Summers’s replacement.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  March 16, 2006

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I stand by what I said

The speech Harvard's Larry Summers should have given six months ago
We find ourselves in what we academics call “a teachable moment.” 
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  February 23, 2006

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Bush’s real motive

Why is W. acting so recklessly in pursuit of the right to spy?
President George W. Bush’s persistent support of the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program — the insidious surveillance system first disclosed by the New York Times on December 16 — represents much more than a stubborn presidential effort to catch terrorists.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  February 09, 2006
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