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...year, Virgin America's application at the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been enmeshed in a cantankerous debate about who, exactly, controls the airline. Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur who has plastered the Virgin logo on everything from record stores to cell phones, longed to start a U.S. branch of his renegade Virgin airlines but was kept out of the market by a law that says foreigners can't own more than 25% of a U.S.-based carrier. Nor can they run the show from behind the scenes...
...President proposes, and the Congress disposes," the old saying goes, and it suggests that while Presidents take the initiative, the Legislative Branch has the ultimate say. But when it comes to warmaking, that homely aphorism is dead wrong. President Bush has proposed sending more troops to Iraq. In theory, it is now up to Congress to ratify or reject his request. But neither the Constitution's genius nor more than two centuries of experience have managed to make this a contest between equals. As has happened so often in the past, Congress will once again be struggling to punch above...
Thus they invested in Congress--the most broadly representative and directly accountable branch of government--the authority to "declare War," to raise and support armies (while specifying that "no Appropriation of Money for that use shall be for a longer term than two years"), to "provide and maintain a Navy" and to summon into federal service, organize, arm and discipline the state militias. But they also anointed the President--theoretically, at least, somewhat insulated from popular whim by the Electoral College--as the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia...
...nearly unthinkable invasion of a person's body. Do we have a comparable right, neuroethicists ask, to "freedom of mind"? The ethicists are raising the questions, but it will be up to the courts--and ultimately society at large--to decide when the benefits of this powerful but intrusive branch of brain science outweigh the dangers...
...their claim. Abdul Haq, better known as Dr. Hanif, was caught just hours after crossing the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan in Nangahar province. His capture, after he was followed from the border on a tip, was a success for the beleaguered National Defense Services (NDS), Afghanistan's intelligence branch, which has long been unable to prevent suspected Taliban militants from treating the poorly guarded border as a revolving door, entering at will to assist with attacks on Afghan and Coalition forces, then melting back into the sanctuary of Pakistan's ungoverned frontier zone...