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...Counsel is to protect the authority of the President. And in that department, Alito seemed to support expanding the power of the presidency in ways that worry congressional Democrats today. He was part of the Litigation Strategy Working Group, a team of about a dozen officials that Attorney General Edwin Meese appointed to help embed Reagan's philosophy more deeply into the legal system. In a 1986 memo to the group, Alito proposed to have Reagan issue "signing statements," defining exactly how the President understood a law's meaning, when he approved a bill that Congress had passed. Reagan issued...
...international man of mystery; others, the death merchant. He was the subject of the 1986 best seller Manhunt: the Dramatic Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist, by Peter Maas. The former Marine, 77, stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and was someone to be reckoned with. But Edwin Wilson's roller-coaster ride as a freelance spy flew off the rails in 1982, when he was lured out of Libya in a sting operation conducted by U.S. marshals. He then was convicted in a series of sensational trials for gunrunning, selling 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosives...
...Square with Ronald Reagan. Yet he returned as often as he could to his hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, where his entry-level job in journalism was sweeping the floor at his family's beloved newspaper, the Adair County Free Press (still running strong, by the way, with brother Edwin as publisher...
Hugh died last week while visiting Paris with his wife Anne and daughter Sandy. We offer them and his three other children--Cynthia, Bettina and Edwin--and his seven grandchildren our deepest condolences. Hugh did many things well in journalism, always with modesty and grace, but his most lasting legacy was his ability to see Presidents as people first, vulnerable and human...
With the graduation of Yale guard Edwin Draughan and Brown guard Jason Forte, Jaaber might be the most explosive player left in the Ivy League (apologies to Bulldogs swingman Casey Hughes for being so rudely dismissed). The lightning quick Quakers guard set the league record for steals in a season with 85 and, despite his diminutive stature, helped out on the glass, averaging nearly five boards a game...