Новости за 15.12.2011

Finding a coach to take over a college football program sure seems pretty easy, doesn't it?

Tennis Now interviews top 100 ATP professional Michael Russell. Russell, a 13 year veteran of the tour, talks about how he prepares for matches, how important fitness is to his game and playing Rafael Nadal on Centre Court at Wimbledon this year.

Many hands help make holiday cookies. That's true when you're gathered with family and friends and vats of colored icing. It's true when you're running a contest for cookie recipes, when it takes thousands of readers, dozens of cooking school students and five hungry judges to choose the best. And, it turns out, that's even true if you're one of the winners.

Nat Hentoff

John Jay, the co-writer of the Federalist Papers and the first chief justice of the United States (1789-95), wrote in a 1786 letter to Thomas Jefferson that he was worried that under our evolving founding document that became the Constitution, Congress would have exorbitant power.

“These three great departments of sovereignty,” he told Jefferson, “should be forever separated and so distributed to serve as checks on each other.”

The separation of powers was indeed embodied in the Constitution... Читать дальше...