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Orcutt, who calls the Bellows work “emotional, provocative and compositionally well thought-out,” says there is a tension between responding to the barbaric events depicted and examining those depictions for their formal qualities...
...challenges that could face a peacekeeping force have been underscored this week by mounting tension between Turkey and Iraq's Kurds. As part of its price for granting the U.S. basing rights, Turkey wants the right to put an army of its own into northern Iraq in order to suppress any move towards Kurdish independence. And Kurdish leaders are fiercely resistant to that proposal, some warning that the Turks would be treated as invaders. Both sides are U.S. allies, and both expect the U.S. to rule in their favor...
Martire transcended the additional tension, however, defeating Dynof...
This judicial nomination conflict, the most recent since Judge Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court was defeated in 1987, reveals a tension in the American Constitution and in the way we think our government should work. On the one hand, our separation of powers provides us with a system of checks and balances, whereby “ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” and “the interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place” (Federalist 51). On the other hand, the judiciary...
...proposed reconciliation of this constitutional tension is to note the extraordinary qualifications of this candidate and to urge the Senate to confirm Mr. Estrada; actually, all the Democrats have to do is to allow the nomination to come to a vote. The Senate should assert its constitutional power against presidential nominations for judicial office, and arguably even with a filibuster, when the nominee does not possess the high qualifications for federal judicial office. Mr. Estrada’s record in the Solicitor General’s Office suggests that he is no ideologue. When high ability and good character...