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...critical means of congressional oversight, IGs have never been particularly popular with the executive branch. Virtually every federal agency testified against the draft IG Act legislation, with the Justice Department arguing it constitutionally violated the separation of powers. Two years later the Reagan Administration tried to eliminate the system altogether, and since then all administrations have tried gaming the system to avoid embarrassments...
Kennedy School of Government professor David R. Gergen, an adviser to Clinton while Rubin and Summers were in the executive branch, said the Citigroup position should not affect Rubin’s Harvard role...
...others on the UC have been vocal about their ambitions for the upcoming election, and it appears unlikely that the council’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC)—the advocacy branch whose chair has gone on to win the top post in four of the past five elections—will yield a presidential candidate this year. Current SAC Chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09, who succeeded current UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 in that post, has insisted that he will...
Number of cases of naked sleepwalkers at the British branch of the budget hotel chain Travelodge in the past year. Almost all of the instances involved...
...threat of martial law puts the Supreme Court in a quandary. A public fed up with years of judges ruling to please those in power has welcomed recent decisions that have reestablished the primacy of the constitution over the whims of the executive branch. But upholding the constitution in this case risks provoking its suspension by the military man who also serves as president. "It's a tricky situation," admits Rabbani. "Musharraf's disqualifications [to run for president under the constitution] are so patent that to sidestep them would be difficult for the courts. But the risks of ruling against...