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...meanwhile, were doing some early saber rattling of their own. Within hours of O'Connor's resignation, Senator Kennedy called a press conference to warn that if Bush chose a nominee who "threatens to roll back the rights and freedoms of the American people, then the American people will insist that we oppose that nominee--and we intend...
Bennett's book is only one side of a sharp argument over Lincoln and race, but its success served as a sharp reminder that--just as in all previous times--modern America will insist on seeing Lincoln on its own terms. Consider C.A. Tripp and his argument that Lincoln was gay. His book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln begins with the fact that Lincoln during his late 20s and early 30s shared a bed with a young man named Joshua Speed. As President, Lincoln may also have shared his bed with a captain of his guard unit in Washington...
...election, Kirchschläger's cautious assessment did little to clarify matters for the 20% of Austrian voters who, according to private polls, are still undecided about the Waldheim affair. Both Waldheim, the standard-bearer of the conservative People's Party, and Socialist Candidate Kurt Steyrer, a onetime Health Minister, insist that the former U.N. chiefs wartime record should not be an election issue. In fact, the controversy has rallied support for Waldheim. Before the March disclosures that he had misrepresented his wartime service, most polls showed him trailing Steyrer by a narrow margin. After the allegations began to mushroom, polls...
Some legal scholars scoff at the idea that the separation of powers envisioned under the Constitution is endangered by hybrid officials like the Comptroller. They contend that the existing system of checks and balances is sufficiently vigorous to keep any one branch from dominating the others, and that to insist always on ironclad divisions would inhibit the flexible assignment of Government functions. Far more worrisome to many legal observers is the possibility that the court might invalidate Gramm-Rudman on the broad ground that only officials who can be removed by the President should exercise Executive powers, a ruling that...
Ernest, 77, and Julio, 76, say they bear no ill will toward Joseph, 66, but insist they must protect their trademark rights on principle. Otherwise, they argue, anyone would be able to use the family name. But Joseph, who is preparing a countersuit, was upset by a statement in his brothers' suit that shipments of the disputed cheese could conceivably become contaminated and damage the image of Gallo wines, which have been produced since 1933. Joseph's lawyer, John Whiting, points out that the cheeses have won gold medals at the past two Orange County fairs in California. Says Whiting...