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...doubtful that Pat Nixon ever knit the flag, but the pervasive involvement of every modern President in interpreting the powers granted by the U.S. Constitution is now a hard and often bruising fact of life. If a President does not actually curl up by the fire at night to ponder his copy of the Constitution, in all likelihood he has read some of its phrases during the day and confronted its words in the rush of events...
Perhaps the remedy is for all the contenders to curl up for a quiet night with the Constitution. Some years ago, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson put it well. "While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty," he wrote, "it also contemplates that the practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government. It enjoins upon its branches separateness but interdependence, autonomy but reciprocity." Unchecked and unbalanced, the three sources of power may pull too much apart...
While dog sleds are Butcher's sole from of transportation as she refuses to use snow machines "mass transport" in Alaska, she could not do without her dogs. "When your snow machine breaks down, you can't curl up with it," Butcher says...
...armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl of a dressing- mirror frame, and the flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity, and the way a scrim curtain hung and stirred in the faint breeze -- and all the rest...
...home. But the timing of the appearance of A Book of Travellers' Tales could hardly be happier. Those who think that days of bumper-to-bumper traffic are too high a price to pay for a glimpse of Old Faithful or Mickey Mouse may welcome this alternative: they can curl up instead with reports by more than 300 wanderers, spanning some 2,400 years and covering virtually the entire earth. Reading about exotic places is usually the next best thing to seeing them in person. Sometimes, when the natives are unfriendly or the food inedible, a secondhand experience is more...