Word: powerless
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...about that as I did about everybody else, and I felt so helpless. I thought, I'm in the one position on earth, the presidency of the United States. It's supposed to be the most powerful job on earth. And on this one thing, it's the most powerless job. I cannot do anything to help these people...
...spite of all this, the intensity of debate among Harvard students on the very issues, which they are powerless to change, is high as can be. Henry Kissinger reportedly remarked that “university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” It is a comment that applies quite well to today’s Harvard, as I am sure it did to Kissinger?...
...Palestinians - an argument dismissed as spurious by Zinni, Cordesman and others. Instead, the Iraq occupation and the ongoing conflict in the West Bank and Gaza has burnished al-Qaeda's appeal in relation to the pro-U.S. Arab regimes it hopes to supplant, because these regimes appear powerless to affect the plight of the Palestinians and Iraqis. With seemingly no Arab leaders capable of protecting Arab interests, bin Laden paints himself and his politics of suicidal jihad as the path to redeeming Islam's lost honor...
Superman in a church pouring out his heart to a priest. While Superman's back was turned, a million people vanished from earth, including Lois Lane, and he's powerless to do anything about it. He's a brooding, angry, heavily shadowed Superman, riddled with self-doubt. "For the first time, I was really afraid," he says. "Lost, without my rhythm." You get through the entire issue before you realize not a single punch has been thrown...
...important that those who wish to dismantle the latter-day apartheid continue to speak candidly about it to the powerful in our country. They must also direct that same candor toward the powerless and move them to action, too. Put another way, leaders should not only speak truth to power, but they should also speak truth to impotence and generate power! To do less would only reshuffle the “separate but equal” deck in our schools...