I applaud the efforts to save the Glenwood power station in Yonkers ("Supporters Rise to Defend a Cherished Power Station," Aug. 7).
Dictatorial power in its original, Roman form is a formally delegated and time-limited power to defend an already existing republican constitution through the use of extra-legal force (D xlii-xliv, 1-19).
It is enough to make a self-respecting Republican want to tear his hair out in frustration, especially as the party is trying to defend an unpopular war, contain the power of the new Democratic majority on Capitol Hill and generate some enthusiasm among voters heading toward the presidential election in 2008.
But this is small compensation for defending a job whose powers in the realm of domestic policy are wholly unequal to voters' expectations.
Resisters, they insist, are simply defending a white monopoly of power and riches.
The first was procedural due process: people threatened by government actions that might potentially take away life, liberty, or possessions would have the right to defend themselves from a power that sought, whether for good reasons or bad, to deprive them of something important.
In a 2001 Harvard Law Review article, Ms. Kagan defended a robust assertion of presidential power unless specifically limited by Congress — albeit in the service of "progressive goals" on the domestic front.
But there is a clear difference in structure: the UK trailer sets up a more immediately complex plotline by dwelling on Donovan's pre-Powers case, defending a Russian spy played by Mark Rylance, which naturally segues on to the difficulties his family faces in the anti-communist atmosphere of the Eisenhower era.
Filip Sandberg put Sweden, the defending champion, ahead on a power play early in the second period, but Grimaldi scored twice in a three-minute span to swing the game in favor of the United States.
To wit, Obama did not defend Samantha Power after her "off the record" remarks in which she relayed to a Scottish journalist that her boss's opponent was a "monster".
