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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In another important separation of powers case, Supreme Court Justices heard arguments on the Constitutionality of the line-item veto. Long a Republican cause, a line-item veto finally passed Congress last year with President Clinton's support. But a federal judge struck down the measure earlier this year because in allowing the President to strike specific items from Congressional bills the measure places too much power in the Executive Branch. Lawyer Alan Morrison told justices Tuesday that a line-item veto would allow the President to distort Congress's intentions simply by picking and choosing what...
...fact, by the end of the evening when he hears a women screaming incoherently on the bus that returns him to school, he feels somewhat indignant. "What kind of formal is this?" he insists. What about the dignified manner with which adults at formal balls conduct themselves? He is struck by the sharp contrast between formal clothing and decidedly casual behavior...
Although UCLA (40-19-1) staked out an early 2-0 lead in the third, Harvard (33-14) struck back in the fifth, stringing together five straight singles to put three runs on the board. The Crimson added four more in the sixth and Hogan and reliever Donald Jamieson--who pitched out of a jam in the ninth--held the Bruins scoreless the rest...
...long as she can remember. Last year she learned of an experimental program for depression run by the National Institute of Mental Health, but in order to participate, she needed to arrive at work an hour or two late every day for a month. She and her supervisor struck a deal: she would make up the lost time at the end of each day. "It's the first time I've had a boss who is understanding about this kind of thing," Wozny says...
When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species--that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting an all sorts of facts which could possibly...