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Spaniards responded by giving the Socialists 44% of the vote and 184 seats in the 350-member lower house of parliament. While the seat total was 18 fewer than in the 1982 landslide, the party kept its legislative majority. "These results confirm that we have been following the right track," said Gonzalez. Yet the party's swerve toward the center created some doubters. Many of the lost Socialist seats were picked up by the Democratic and Social Center Party of Adolfo Suarez, which boosted its representation from two seats to 19. Suarez, the first elected Prime Minister after...
...Senate is expected to confirm both Rehnquist and Scalia by late summer. Still, both will undergo sharp and searching questioning by liberal Senators. Their nominations raise basic questions about the role of Congress in choosing Supreme Court Justices. Is the Senate's job merely to say whether a President's choice has the intellectual qualifications and experience to sit on the federal bench? If so, Scalia and Rehnquist are above reproach. Both men, declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole last week, have "the experience, the background, the integrity, the intelligence and the right stuff...
...Senate the power to appoint judges. Instead, a compromise was struck: the President would make the choices with the "advice and consent" of the Senate. Throughout the 19th century, this was taken to mean that the Senate could balk on ideological grounds, and indeed, the Senate refused to confirm some 20 Supreme Court nominations. But in the past 50 years, the only serious challenges (such as the rejection of Nixon Appointees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell) have occurred when political objections were linked to questions of fitness and competence. Some liberals feel that it is time for the Senate...
Television and movies reassuringly confirm foreigners' preconceptions of America and Americans. Such notions tend to be superficial and overdrawn, just like pop. The U.S. is violent; just look at Miami Vice. The U.S. is amazingly rich; look at Falcon Crest. The U.S. is zany--and rich and violent; look at Beverly Hills Cop. It is telling that Vanessa Redgrave defends Dynasty and Dallas on Trotskyist grounds. These portrayals of American ruling-class mischief, she says, are politically correct...
...reunion-goers, this week is the time to stock up on Harvard paraphernalia, as local Harvard-ware store merchants will confirm...