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...person would have to be nuts to join any branch of the U.S. military now. The National Guard and Army Reserve were supposed to be ready reserve troops, not an invading and occupying military force spreading U.S. aggression abroad. If confidence is to be restored in the U.S. military, our forces must be used for the defense of this country, not for the personal goals of the President. U.S. troops belong on U.S. soil, not stationed in 135 different countries. There is no justification for U.S. soldiers serving in other countries, except for a U.N.-sponsored peacekeeping mission...
...Scandinavian art. The fair will also feature the Black Box, a 250-sq-m, two-story-high new-media venue using video, 3-D projections and even artificial intelligence. "ARCO is the most important week of the year for Spanish art," says Maria Porto, director of the Madrid branch of Marlborough, a London-based gallery. The fair was launched in 1982 by a small group of artists and curators eager to make the international connections that were denied them under the previous 40 years of authoritarian rule. Since then, ARCO has also emerged as an intellectual forum. This year, visitors...
...Voltaire, Locke and other philosophers more optimistic, even revolutionary, in spirit than Montesquieu. But it was from the warier sage of La Br??de that the Constitution's framers learned how to fashion a lasting government. Under his sway, the framers insisted on a Judiciary separate from the other branches of government. And drawing on the Frenchman's ideas, the framers also designed a Legislative Branch of government with two houses, each to check the other...
...council come to fruition, general council elections no longer make sense; membership on the general council will not matter as much as membership on specific committees. Harvard undergraduates should expect that their representatives are able to do what they campaigned to do—on the proposed grants branch, social branch or advocacy branch—not elect representatives who are shoved onto committees for which they did not campaign and may not be qualified...
...think it would be possible for any one specific group to pack a branch if they so chose,” said SAC member Jason L. Lurie...