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...Faculty now elects a Faculty Council to voice their concerns, and student-faculty committees, however effective, have multiplied enormously from the days when many students said they felt powerless in the face of Harvard's "governing board of a few rich people," according to Jay Epstein...
...situation does, however, deserve close consideration, for there may be another patient, unlike Bouvia, who is dependent on the hospital's care and cannot simply check herself out. That patient may find herself in the same position, but totally powerless a situation that makes the phrase "self- determination" seem irrelevant...
WITH 50 PERCENT of American marriages ending in divorce these days and the threat of nuclear war rendering us powerless to control our own lives, it's always comforting to know that the people in Hollywood still live happily ever after. Sure, there are the Karen Silkwoods and the John Reeds who are victimized by circumstance, but what about E.T., Irene Cara, and the hundreds of other characters who emerge unscathed...
Rather than affecting world events, Reagan and Andropov act like two reactionary constants. My proposal for Man of the Year: the terrorist. Beside him, the heads of the two most powerful nations on earth look like frustrated policemen, powerless to stop violence...
...Journalism gives you a sense of being part of one's own history from the unvirailable position of the observery," she says. But rather than remaining passive onlookers, "Journalists have an obligation to be a voice for the powerless," Bernstein believes...