Word: faithfull
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Griffin Bell, Attorney General for Carter, once trudged to the Hill to try to talk House Speaker Thomas O'Neill into discouraging the mushrooming use of the legislative veto. Bell considered this proviso unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court subsequently ruled, but at the time, Capitol Hill Democrats led by O...
Among Third World nations, India has often seemed the most faithful to its U.S.-inspired constitutional ideals. The world's largest democracy included a declaration of "fundamental rights" in its 1949 charter and backed them up by borrowing the U.S. system of judicial review. "Thank God they put in the...
Apparently not. At least in part, Keillor seems to regard Copenhagen as an excellent observatory from which to view the U.S., and in particular one elusive hamlet in the north-central region. A new collection of Lake Wobegon writings, called Leaving Home, will be published in the fall. Until then...
The campaign was an ill-tempered four-week ordeal, with Labor's main hatchet man, Shadow Foreign Secretary Denis Healey, variously comparing the Prime Minister to Catherine the Great and Genghis Khan. The electorate looked on in apparent bemusement at a campaign that rarely sent the national pulse racing and...
Her involvement in Amnesty International and in the 1987 Walk for Hunger is indicative of this penchant for social service. She cites a longstanding interest in human rights as motivation for her participation in both of these organizations. A faithful presence at Amnesty's bi-monthly letter-writing sessions, Ueno...