T here are two ways to define privacy, and neither involves the squishiness that begins “a reasonable expectation of ... .” The first is what privacy means as a civil construct—what associate justice Louis Brandeis described as “the right to be left alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.”1 The second is what privacy means at its operational core: the...

Sir,?I wonder whether any of your readers can answer the following questions: Has the Society of Medical Officers of Health taken any steps to bring to the notice of the Corporations of Manchester and Liverpool the salaries which should be offered for the positions shortly to become vacant? What will happen to County Nursing Associations when their probationers realise that a halftrained nurse ...

It is a commonly held intuition that increasing punishment leads to less crime. Let's move our glance from the punishment for the crime itself to the punishment for the attempt to commit a crime, or to the punishment for the threat to carry it out. We'll argue that the greater the punishment for the attempt to rob, i.e. for the threat, “give me your money or else...”, the greater the number of ...

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