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...Essay on the federal courts [Sept. 28], Frank Trippett makes the common mistake of assuming that the primary job of the Supreme Court is to decide constitutional issues. The Constitution does not say which branch of Government has the final word on matters of interpretation. The Supreme Court assumed that power for itself in the famous case of Marburyys. Madison. Nevertheless, Congress, which is the most democratic branch of the Federal Government, has every right to challenge the court on this matter. It should decide what is the supreme law of our land...
Another prominent speaker on the horizon: tonight the new head of NASA, James Beggs, will be in Science Center B for a speech sponsored by the Harvard Student Branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Harvard-Radcliffe Space Research Group...
...confusing at first blush, consider a few preliminary facts: Since 1931, Britain has not exercised any influence in Canada beyond, well, stirring the loyalists with a Royal Wedding or two. And since 1931, Canadian governments have tried unsuccessfully to hammer out an indigenous constitution acceptable both to the federal branch and the provincial branch. Trudeau, a former lawyer who has held power with the federal Liberals for all but a few months in the past 14 years, has long dreamed of enshrining a civil Bill of rights together with a constitution the country can call its own. As it stands...
Baranczak said that while several of the KOR members have already or will assume positions with Solidarity now that KOR has folded, he himself will take no official post with the union. He added, however, that he has "very strong contacts with a branch of Solidarity" in his hometown of Poznan and will continue to communicate with members of the union...
...first small mammals evolved from a kind of mammalian reptile. In evolutionary terms, these creatures bided their time, for 115 million years, until the disappearance of dinosaurs and other reptiles allowed them to evolve thousands of different shapes and sizes. Significantly, the Arizona find adds a third major branch of mammals to the two that had previously been identified: one resulted in the egg-laying platypus and the spiny anteater of today; the other led to all modern animals that produce live young. The new branch may have been a zoological dead end, but its discovery illustrates the extraordinary precariousness...