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...third time, this time including a Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot (FWAB), a back-up ballot (which doesn't include candidates for the state level) used by people like me who aren't able to get their absentee ballots in time. I have never felt so angry, helpless and frustrated with the American voting system, and I had certainly never feared that my vote wouldn't end up counting - until...
...rebels were backed by Rwandan tanks and artillery, and there was a "high probability that troops from Rwanda are operating in the area." The rebel advance has also exposed some unpleasant truths. One of the most important is the fact that U.N. peacekeepers based in eastern Congo were helpless to stop Nkunda...
...rest comes from Canada, Russia, Mexico, and several smaller countries. The cartel sets production quotas for each member, but those are routinely violated by bigger players, like Saudi Arabia, whose well usually have spare capacity. "We saw that when prices went up to $145 a barrel OPEC was helpless," says Fadhil Chalabi, executive director of the Center for Global Energy Studies in London, who was an OPEC official during the last global oil crisis of the 1970s. Nor did they anticipate the sharp fall in demand which has helped send the price of their oil plunging. "This is not like...
Imagine if one day the world went dark and the entire population was left helpless, except for the small hope of an underground city: Ember City. This is the premise of director Gil Kenan’s new film “City of Ember,” based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Jeanne DuPrau. A portion of Earth’s population moves to Ember, a glittering metropolis, “for the good of all mankind”—or so say The Builders, the team that masterminded the city...
...characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on Nabokov’s ship—Pnin to indifference (against which he cracks), Kimbote to delusion (to which he succumbs), Humbert to lust (which drives him to kidnap and murder). The more forward motion these characters seemed to make, the clearer it became to the reader that they were stuck in the same...