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Previous Presidents have sporadically issued signing statements, but seldom and mainly as boilerplate or spin. Until the 1980s, there had been just over a dozen in two centuries. The President's basic legislative weapon, after all, is the veto power given him by the founders. He can use the power as leverage to affect legislation or kill it. But he cannot legislate himself or interpret the law counter to Congress's intent. Signing statements were therefore relatively rare instances of presidential nuance or push-back. In eight years, Ronald Reagan used signing statements to challenge 71 legislative provisions, and Bill...
...news posing as a superhero saving the poor. The world is full of organizations and unknown individuals who could achieve considerably more than Bono has in the fight against poverty if they were granted a fraction of the media coverage that self-promoting rock stars get. Ali Alpkaya Ankara Seldom does a written work come along that truly deserves to be in every library and on every bookshelf. Your Persons of the Year issue is one such example and should be recommended to all as essential reading for years to come. Ian Harris Sturminster Newton, England After a year...
...Attorney's post in Newark, N.J., opened up in '87, Alito wasn't an obvious candidate. U.S. Attorneys, the top federal prosecutors in each state, are often swashbuckling, charismatic figures who are aiming to head into politics. In his Justice Department job, Alito worked on highly technical legal questions, seldom held press conferences and rarely showed up in a courtroom. Alito saw the job as a chance to move back near where he grew up and be closer to his family, and he had a novel spin on his dearth of qualifications: he told a colleague the position would give...
More than you know, your reading experience with this magazine is shaped by someone you seldom meet in these pages: Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief. His assignment is stunning in scope: guiding 154 magazines read by 173 million people around the globe. It is one of the great jobs in journalism, all the more storied because over the past 83 years it has changed hands fewer times than the papacy. So you can understand why I'm excited to tell you that one of those rare transitions is happening...
...King's absence registered. For Abernathy, a keen reader of crowds, the palpable disappointment was worse than he feared. He went to a vestibule telephone instead of the podium and marshaled enticements for King--mentioning news cameras, the big spray of microphones, and Lawson's point that the movement seldom gathered so many people in the South. Most of all, Abernathy told King this was a core crowd of sanitation workers who had braved a night of hellfire to hear him, and they would feel cut off from a lifeline if he let them down. When King gave in, Abernathy...