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...House has repeatedly argued he is - at least when he is acting as commander-in-chief in time of war. The only constraint on his power in those circumstances, the White House has argued, is the Constitution itself; no laws passed by Congress or treaties ratified by it can limit what the President does. Back when the story of Bush's wiretapping broke in December, the Administration was still holding the line on that argument. And with the politics of the issue on Bush's side - most Americans were more concerned about security than civil liberties - it looked like...
...America as mostly irrelevant, which has allowed leaders like Chávez to attack U.S. policies at will and sully Washington's reputation in the region. But the U.S. can still repair much of the damage--if it takes two bold initiatives that would break through the shortsighted policies that limit its opportunities in Latin America...
...there's the contradiction of insisting that racism and xenophobia aren't part of this discussion, especially when they've been part of every immigration reform discussion in the history of the Republic. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the 1924 Immigration Act - which used quotas to limit immigration from Southern Europe (read: Italy) - to the debate during World War II on how many Jewish refugees the U.S. should take in, we have never managed to have an ethnic-neutral, origin-neutral discussion of immigration reform. It always becomes about keeping out "those people." The present debate...
...downtown, crashed against the inside walls, and slid outside the tracks for 100 meters before coming to a deadly halt. Inside, 41 people lay dead. According to the train's black box, the convoy entered the curve that leads to the Jesus station at 80 km/h, double the speed limit. The regional transportation minister, Jos? Ram?n Garc?a Ant?n said that "the machinist must have suffered some sort of unconsciousness or problem," adhering to the official line that only human factor was to blame. "Line 1 has all the safety measures established by the protocol required for this type of subway...
...people around. These sheep are used to living life on a hill, and until they were brought in for the studies, they probably saw people only six times a year. Being near people could still be a frightening experience for them, so the sensible thing to do was to limit the amount of stress the surrogate was under. I only wanted the people who had to be there to be there, and I applied the same rule to myself...