Does Attorney General Alberto Gonzales think that the Bush administration has the power to nullify the First Amendment?

The entire investigation was marred by staggering errors. Now, a retrial will drag Knox -- and the country's court system -- back into the spotlight.

Instead of seeking to establish guilt and punish it with costly legal entanglements, modern divorce courts could prevent many unnecessary separations. A compulsory waiting period, private hearings, and a thorough investigation by case workers would replace methods now too quick or too cumbersome for a right settlement, fair to all concerned. REGINALD HEBER SMITH,one of the founders of the Legal Aid Movement, is the author of Justice and the Poor. He writes from thirty-five years of active practice.

“You will exercise your authority as you deem proper . . .”the President told the newly appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in 1945; . . your authority is supreme.” Douglas MacArthur needed no urging. This is the story of how one man, imperious, arrogant, often infuriating, and as often wise, made possible Japan’s rise from the ashes to its influential position in the world today.

In the eight and a half years that have elapsed since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision banning segregation in the public schools, a civil rights revolution has taken place. For a closer scrutiny of the changing attitude of some liberals toward desegregation, we turn to MURRAY FRIEDMAN, who holds a doctorate in American political and social history from Georgetown University and who has been an intergroup-relations official for eight years.