Challenges In The News 05/05/08

But after the ambitious competition-winning design by Rem Koolhaas was scrapped in 2004 as impractical and exorbitant, Mr. Piano finally accepted the challenge and his proposal was approved the following year.

“If I was living upstairs I wouldn’t like it myself.” But the loft residents ‘have chosen a very, very challenging place to live.’

For Levy, the challenge will be to sustain his current momentun.

An illegal alien, in willful violation of federal immigration law, is without standing to challenge the constitutionality of a state law, when compliance with federal law would absolve the illegal alien’s constitutional dilemma.
When challenged during an interview about how her rather bleak view of America is at odds with her own life, she said she is not talking about herself.

“These missions are extremely challenging and a great deal of preparation and teamwork are required to get these vehicles ready to fly,” said William H. Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations.

Still bathing in the afterglow of their decisive victory at the polls, Pakistan’s rival opposition parties will embark in earnest today on forming a government, a challenge that may prove as difficult as winning a mandate in the first place.

“This opens the door” to a variety of worker lawsuits, including challenges to the fees that workers are charged to administer their savings plans, said Ed Ferrigno, vice president of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America.

Mostly we used professional matchups, but personal entangelments were fair game too. Bacon even figured into a connection. Most interesting challengess: French newcomer Marion Cotillard and youngster Saoirse Ronan.

“There are some people in this building that think that if they can wait and wait, and push it to the end, that that will get us into bigger financial difficulties and challenges, that that will make us the raise taxes. But they’re making a big mistake. There will be no raising taxes.”

Dismissal of an ACLU challenge is a victory for the White House. The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to President Bush’s order authorizing the interception of some phone calls and emails within the United States, dealing another defeat to civil libertarisn who say the president violated the law. But Bush’s lawyers successfully invoked two legal doctrines making it difficult to challenge the government’s anti-terrorism policies. First, they said, challengers must show that they had their phone calls or e-mails intercepted. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in November rejected a legal challenge to NSA wiretapping from the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation.

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