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Previous Presidents have sporadically issued signing statements, but seldom and mainly as boilerplate or spin. Until the 1980s, there had been just over a dozen in two centuries. The President's basic legislative weapon, after all, is the veto power given him by the founders. He can use the power as leverage to affect legislation or kill it. But he cannot legislate himself or interpret the law counter to Congress's intent. Signing statements were therefore relatively rare instances of presidential nuance or push-back. In eight years, Ronald Reagan used signing statements to challenge 71 legislative provisions, and Bill...
...eating it for the taste; we consume it for the intellectual calories. Thankfully though, the curriculum is not dry in the least. This is because the architects and professors of the course have taken on an even greater task than inseminating a lecture hall full of students with a basic knowledge of biochemical sciences. By basing the understanding of scientific concepts in real-world issues, specifically HIV and AIDS, students of the course cannot close their eyes to neither the scientific nor humanitarian side of the public health crisis that faces our world today.AIDS is the problem that everyone knows...
Wednesday teas are open to all Harvard students and faculty members. According to Gomes’ former student Jeff D. Dean ’06, who teaches a basic Christian scripture class for 12- to 14-year-olds at Memorial Church, “Tea is a great way to meet interesting people. Plus, Gomes is an engaging host...
...greatest divergence comes between the left and the right hemispheres, which often work almost independently of each other. That is not such a bad thing because one hemisphere can be busy writing a grocery list or solving an equation while the other scans the environment and tends to other basic chores. As we age, however, the walls between the hemispheres seem to fall, with the two halves working increasingly in tandem. Neuroscientist Roberto Cabeza of Duke University dubs that the HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults) model, and judging by his work, the phenomenon is a powerful...
...Smoking Gun, a website that specializes in investigative journalism, has published a lengthy report that challenges some of the basic facts in Frey's book. They found no evidence that Frey had a relationship with a girl who died in a car accident in high school, an incident that does much to stoke Frey's dark-star energy. They found his claim to have engaged in a melee with police officers when he was arrested in 1992 to have been fabricated. Most disturbingly, in a way (since a major plot point hangs thereon), the Smoking Gun report questions Frey...