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...Under the Basic Law, the central government in Beijing has the power to appoint as well as remove Hong Kong's Chief Executive. Furthermore, the Chief Executive has a duty under the Basic Law to be accountable not only to Hong Kong but to the central government. Democracy, therefore, is not for Hong Kong alone to determine...
...long after that, Gonzales met with senators to make clear that Bush would not oppose a Democratic measure intended to eliminate the attorney general's current prerogative to appoint federal prosecutors without Senate confirmation. Previously, the Justice Department had spoken out against such legislation...
...Iglesias had been fired because he delegated too much to a subordinate and did not show enough "leadership". The firings might never have happened if not for a little-noticed clause slipped into the Patriot Act last year. That provision, promoted by the White House, permits the President to appoint "interim" U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation for an indefinite period. The White House successfully pushed the measure because it regarded the previous law (which allowed unconfirmed U.S. attorneys to serve for only 120 days) as an undue limit on the prerogatives of the President. Living within those limits, however, might...
...When a potato becomes too hot to handle, Presidents like to appoint commissions. Never mind that the taxpayers are paying tens of billions of dollars annually to run military and veterans' health care, and that we elected lawmakers to make sure that the job is being done (and that the lawmakers, in turn, have created the Government Accountability Office to help them out, with its 3,000 employees and a $500 million annual budget). When all of these institutions fail, creating a commission is the equivalent of punting on third down: You're not going to score, but it suggests...
...Meanwhile, the South Asia Initiative (SAI), a faculty consortium founded in 1999 to provide a forum for South Asian scholars across disciplines, does not have the power to appoint faculty or grant degrees. Though SAI has begun to offer grants for study in South Asia, it was only able to fund less than 50 percent of summer grant proposals last year; this despite former President Lawrence H. Summers’ statement that his favorite trip of 2006 was to India: “Every American should visit the country that may be our most important ally two decades from...