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...called to treat [animals] with kindness,” he writes, “not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Maverick for Mercy | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...word trickled out that President-elect Barack Obama was considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, Clinton was on the phone with the President of Pakistan. Asif Ali Zardari was calling with a long-overdue thank-you. Back in 1998, when Zardari's late wife Benazir Bhutto was powerless and out of favor with the United States, the then First Lady had received her at the White House, over the objections of both the State Department and the National Security Council. Bhutto eventually regained her influence, and before her assassination last December, became an important U.S. ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Wants Hillary for His 'Team of Rivals' | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Even the most hard-hearted of observers would have begrudged forward Pat Magnarelli a little pity after the hardships of his last two seasons, as he found out the hard way that the only thing tougher than losing is feeling powerless to stop...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: The Missing Link | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...them. The mist enveloped them, warm and caressing and intimate, yet ethereal. Frederick was sobbing and trembling against her, muttering snatches of poetry. Roxanna closed her eyes, searching for inspiration. She felt as if they were in the eye of a heavenly hurricane, against which they were helpless and powerless and pliant.Gently, she sunk to her knees in the burbling water, drawing Frederick down with her. “Let me wash you clean,” she told him. She started rubbing his hairless chest worshipfully. Frederick allowed the housemaid to take him into her arms. She held...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy: Chapter 12 | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

Sure, the economy is in crisis mode and the U.S. has probably entered a recession, but at least we can make fun of the suits who made it happen. Or who watched it happen. Or who were powerless to stop it. That's why Sad Guys on Trading Floors is such a hit (and why TIME ran something similar a few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad Guys on Trading Floors | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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