Republicanism in this country is the aloofness of the Supreme Court from the political departments and its superior respectability compared to the accommodating availability of the President of the Philippines and Congress to the importunate electorate and their dependence on its capricious goodwill.
I had a colleague on the Court who during the more than eight [...]

The rare North Island brown kiwi is the new star of the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC.
Keeper Kathy Brader said the bird, as yet unnamed, hatched late last week. It was behaving differently from Manaia, a kiwi born in 2005 as part of the zoos captive breeding programme.
It is extremely busy and active, and [...]