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...required again. As the Square becomes ever-more corporatized, such “surgical” methods may again become necessary to attract businesses that fill a hole created by skyrocketing rents. Harvard Square is decidedly less distinctive than it once was. With the arrival of every new bank branch and national chain, the Square loses some of the edge that traditionally set it apart as a funky hangout for college students and eccentric residents of Cambridge. Gentrification and high rents have driven out many longstanding businesses, including late-night diners and bookstores that, besides catering to students, contributed...
Most high school students learn about the wonders of our three-branch government at some point in their education. They are also told of the system of checks and balances that prevents the over-accumulation of power in the hands of any one individual or body...
...what is not often included in such lessons is a crucial caveat to the separation of powers: the presidential signing statement. Thanks to the burgeoning use of signing statements—by which the president instructs the executive branch to effectively ignore some parts of a bill—our carefully crafted system is being systematically undermined. Indeed, President George W. Bush has frequently used the practice of signing statements to bypass laws throughout his term, a practice that went virtually unnoticed for five years...
...Bush administration’s abuse of signing statements has corroded the checks and balances of our government by quietly expanding the power of the executive branch. It took a Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé by Charles C. Savage ’98 in The Boston Globe to unearth that Bush had claimed the authority to ignore more than 750 laws enacted between 2001 and 2006—laws regulating everything from affirmative action to torture...
...Howard, uneasy at the prospect of his handover to Treasurer Peter Costello, which the P.M. had been postponing since 2001, and mistrustful of new labor laws that made wage negotiations individual rather than collective affairs. Many voters, too, bridled at the government's tendency to treat politics as a branch of economics. They wanted a sense that politics was about other things...