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...governing document. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution states, "The Congress shall have Power . . . to declare War." But according to Article II, Section 2, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." In Judge Greene's courtroom, Attorney Stuart Gerson of the Justice Department argued that history provides numerous examples of Presidents exercising their powers as Commander in Chief without a formal declaration of war. Thomas Jefferson, he noted, committed the Navy to battle against the Barbary pirates without a green light from the legislature. By contrast, Congress has formally declared...
Instead, Administration attorneys have deflected the courts' attention by arguing, as Gerson did last week, that war powers are a "political question" and thus beyond judicial review. The law professors' brief rejected that view, although Judge Greene's questions indicated that the issue bothers...
...between the staff cutbacks and greater permissiveness. True, standards-and-practices people no longer read every script or attend every taping. But shows are still vetted by program executives, who alert the censors to potential problems. "We changed the mechanism, but we did not change the standards," says Alan Gerson, who heads the remnants of NBC's standards division. Indeed, most of this fall's bolder shows were written and reviewed before most of the recent cutbacks...
...along with Orthodox Jews, that Halakhah (religious law) clearly rules out women rabbis. According to the Talmud (teachings of religious sages compiled more than 14 centuries ago), women may not perform certain functions reserved to men, such as witnessing betrothals and marriages and leading congregations in prayers. J.T.S. Chancellor Gerson D. Cohen, who presided over the vote, left little doubt that he rejects the Orthodox view and believes that women should be allowed to perform these functions. Said Cohen: "I believe it is incumbent upon us to do away with discrimination against women in Judaism, especially when...
...proposal has the worst of both worlds," said Gerson. Students and faculty would lose their flexibility and" none of the problems posed by the current calendar like the short, high-pressured trimesters would be solved...