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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and HSA managers said the measure arises from a worsening atmosphere in which undergraduates feel increasingly powerless. The problems have intensified in recent years of rising profits and growing professional input to HSA activities, they said...
Opposition leaders want the presidential ballot moved up. They also want to eliminate provisions in the constitution that make congress virtually powerless to amend it, that call for at least nine of the 35 senators to be government appointed and that give the armed forces both autonomy and supervisory role in national policy-making...
COLLEGE students, and especially B.U. students, should know by now that at the bureaucratized university of the 1980s, they are essentially powerless. The administrators don't care what students think. They don't even want to hear it. Their philosophy--"Je suis I'universite"--is inspired by one of Silber's role models, the late Louis XIV of France...
...much to offer, if only someone would take it," Tyler writes, and Maggie is not shy about offering. Powerless in her own marriage, she attempts to control her son. Jesse responds to his mother's effusiveness with a combination of scorn and need, alternately damning her and making demands on her. Maggie's determination to help Jesse find happiness makes him incapable of finding...
...grandparents were poor and powerless, but they were rich in the hope that life in America would be better for their children. "My daddy believed in us helping in the cotton fields, but he didn't want us to be what he was," says the elder Abel. "He wanted something more for us." That wish came true. Abel and Mary Louise provide four sons with the comforts and opportunities of a middle-class upbringing. But they worry about the hurdles their third son must now clear, barriers that seem even higher than when Abel and Xavi were in school...