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...President Nixon had Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox fired. The act calls for the prosecutor to be appointed by a panel of three federal judges and not to be subject to presidential approval. But some legal observers argue that the provision has usurped powers that properly reside in the Executive Branch. "The special counsel is a distortion of the Constitution," says Washington Lawyer Ray Randolph. Philip Lacovara, counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, agrees, partly because the position has "too much power." The Supreme Court may be sympathetic to such arguments. It has recently been a strong upholder of the separation...
...upending the independent counsel will not be easy, for both legal and political reasons. "There's a need for an independent conflict-of-interest investigation in the Executive Branch," says University of Texas Law Professor Harold Bruff. "The courts will recognize that need." The Administration, meanwhile, is in an awkward position. Attorney General Edwin Meese and other Reagan Justice Department officials have publicly opposed the special prosecutor, yet they may find it difficult to support North and Deaver without opening themselves to charges of fostering a cover-up. Says one Justice Department official: "In this political climate...
Within the Evangelical, or Low Church branch of the Church of England, some biblical literalists oppose women clergy because of the belief that the Scriptures forbid women's holding authority over men. But the most determined opposition has come from the High Church, or Anglo-Catholic wing, which is close to Roman Catholicism in many of its beliefs, traditions and rituals. The focus for this resistance is the outspoken Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Graham Leonard, 65. Anglo-Catholics concur with Roman Catholic teaching that creating women priests would violate the intentions of Jesus Christ and would deviate from...
...October the Zurichers confirmed their result, which other researchers duplicated and then tried to beat. A slow-moving branch of physics became a horse race as laboratories around the world attempted to push temperatures higher. Last week's announcement does not end the competition. Says Paul Fleury, director of AT&T Bell Laboratories' Physical Research Laboratory: "It took physicists 75 years to raise superconductivity temperatures by 19 degrees. We have more than doubled that in the last 75 days. We're now dealing with new science, and we don't know what the upper limits...
Take, for instance, the person who had the misfortune to father comedian Jerry Seinfeld, veteran of The David Letterman Show and The Tonight Show and the featured performer last week at the just-opened comedy palace in Cambridge Catch A Rising Star, the Boston area branch of a well-known New York club...