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...This rabbit's warren of former factories and warehouses is situated on the banks of Suzhou Creek, and was first used as studio space in 2000. Now it's teeming with artists, curators, collectors and hip young students, as well as curious foreigners. It also houses the local branch of the Beijing Art Now Gallery, www.artnow.cn, which opened at the beginning of the year and like its parent is tasked with identifying the very best contemporary Chinese art for major museum buyers. Be warned though: while the interiors at M50 may look rough and industrial, neither...
...Foreign Correspondents Club, has long shed its roots as a rowdy journalist hangout to become a slick fixture on the tourist trail. If you fancy a tapeo - that's the Spanish term for a tapas bar crawl - then your next stop is Vietnam, where the group runs a branch of Pacharan in Ho Chi Minh City...
...some countable successes to notch on to his bedpost. Heaven forbid we forget that George W. Bush was the first—in fact, the only—president in office when the iPhone was invented. And can you recall who was running our nation’s executive branch during the publication of “The Da Vinci Code”? The list doesn’t stop there. Without President Bush’s monetary involvement, Taco Bell may never have produced such recent treasures as the Crunchwrap Supreme. ¡Felicidades, Señor Presidente...
...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...