The Continuing Battle over Appointments The tension between Congress and the presi- dent persists, and Congress often suffers when the president can act unilaterally on a matter on which the public appears to side with him. During his first term, President Obama was regularly frustrated by Senate...
Created a decade ago by renegade billionaire Eli Foyle, the artificial island off the California coast offered winners of a citizenship lottery the chance at a brighter tomorrow and a crime-free world. Life in Columbia was a dream…for a while. At first, the problems seemed to be no big d...
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become ...