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...balance existed between the presidency and the forces outside that seek to diminish it has rarely if ever occurred. Thomas Jefferson was worried about the "tyranny of the legislature." By 1861, Executive Branch power was at a peak in the hands of Abraham Lincoln, only to slip from the grasp of indifferent and incompetent Presidents until Scholar Woodrow Wilson could suggest in 1885 that Congress had become the dominant part of Government. By the time Wilson won the White House, though, the U.S. was assuming international responsibilities that gave new importance to the presidency. That power was enlarged by Franklin...
Ironically, the most unflattering portrayal in the picture is not of murderer Halliwell or the perverse Orton, but of Lahr himself. Played annoyingly by Wallace Shawn, Lahr comes across as a block-headed buffoon with hardly a grasp of the events he is retelling. His interviews with Peggy Ramsay (Vanessa Redgrave), Orton's literary agent, point out the distance between artist and audience; it's as if Ramsay, representing Orton, is leading Lahr around on a string...
...financial subsidiaries are huddling within Chapter 11. Dozens of operating subsidiaries around the world are carrying on business as usual. They will help keep Texaco's annual cash flow close to $3.6 billion and its anticipated profit this year higher than $650 million -- all outside Pennzoil's direct grasp. That wrinkle took Chairman Liedtke by surprise. As he told TIME, "I thought that when we were suing Texaco, we were suing all of Texaco." Liedtke has claimed that Texaco illegally transferred assets, including its sprawling refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, to the operating companies during the litigation to prevent their...
...forced cessation of that love, and a whole range of feelings in the process that are not ordinarily put up for sale. Those emotions, not Baby M., were the real, if hidden commodity in the transaction. And the transaction fell through because neither buyer nor seller had a grasp of the commodity in the first place...
Since a solution to South Africa's grinding racial conflict seems to be beyond grasp, how about 306 solutions? That is exactly the suggestion made in a best-selling book that has raised a new controversy -- and won some surprising backers -- throughout the country. The book, South Africa: The Solution, proposes a Swiss-style confederation that would include a weak central government and 306 local bodies that could choose their own economic and social systems. Black radicals could set up Marxist cantons if they wished, and Afrikaner right-wingers could have their all-white enclaves. Everyone else could choose various...