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...balances is sufficiently vigorous to keep any one branch from dominating the others, and that to insist always on ironclad divisions would inhibit the flexible assignment of Government functions. Far more worrisome to many legal observers is the possibility that the court might invalidate Gramm-Rudman on the broad ground that only officials who can be removed by the President should exercise Executive powers, a ruling that they say could jeopardize the independence of more than a dozen regulatory agencies ranging from the Federal Communications Commission to the Federal Reserve Board. "Independent agencies would bite the dust," warns Stanford University...
...suspense should be over in little more than two months, by which time the Justices are expected to hand down their decision. Most court watchers expect that if the law is struck down, the grounds will be narrow. The precedents are so unclear, the implications of any broad new rule so uncharted, and popular or legal consensus on the wisest course so undeveloped that small, tentative steps appear more advisable than bold strides. --By Richard Lacayo. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington
...from dark to light. It is hospitable to accident (Homer's seas, skies and Adirondack hills are full of chance blots and free mergings of color) but disaster-prone as well. One slip, and the veil of atmosphere turns into a mud puddle, a garish swamp. The stuff favors broad effects; nothing proclaims the amateur more clearly than niggling and overcorrection. It can be violated (Homer sometimes did his highlights by tearing strips of paper away to show white below), but it also demands an exacting precision of the hand--and an eye that can translate solid into fluid...
...modest presummit planning session came right at the start. President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev had ceremonially shaken hands, posed for photographers and then sat down to business, alone except for interpreters and notetakers. Reagan assumed their opening discussion would be a general one, each man outlining his broad vision of ways to manage the superpower rivalry. But after the President suggested they move from their armchairs to a rectangular wooden table, the Soviet leader pulled a detailed set of notes out of his briefcase. Then he proceeded to read. What he had brought with him, it turned...