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...Maliki's aides, in turn, leaked to reporters that the Iraqi Prime Minister told President Bush that dealing with the Shi'ite militias would not be a "big problem." In reality, al-Maliki has been totally powerless against the militias, especially since they are loyal to his own political allies. So it was hard to believe Bush was being sincere when he declared he was "reassured by the Prime Minister's commitment to a ... a society in which people are held into account who break the law - whether these people will be criminals al-Qaeda, militia, whoever...
Have you ever felt that you were powerless to change your fate? Presented by the Black Community and Student Theatre (BlackC.A.S.T), Suzan-Lori Parks’s “In the Blood” captured all the elements of classic tragedy and dark humor with a subtle message about the pervasiveness of human hypocrisy. Directed by Faith O. Imafidon ’07, and co-produced by Christian I.C. Strong ’09 and Jessie E.A. Washington ’09, “In the Blood” updates Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic text...
...partition. The constitution allows Iraq's three main groups to establish powerful regions, each with its own government, substantial control over the oil resources in its territory and even its own regional army. Regional law supersedes federal law on almost all matters. The central government is so powerless that, under the constitution, it cannot even impose...
...fact, contrary to popular belief, most student activists are realists. We would prefer if we didn’t have to fight it out and devote countless hours each week to organizing, educating, and agitating. But we realize that when the poor, the powerless, and their supporters are pitted against a $29.2 billion corporation, they won’t win by getting down on their hands and knees and begging. It takes a whole lot more...
...acquire the capability to produce its own nuclear bomb. Tehran insists it is interested only in a civilian nuclear program for energy purposes. The main outside players--the U.S., the European Union, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)--are increasingly skeptical about those claims but thus far have been powerless to do much about it. Western intelligence agencies assume Iran could become the next nuclear power if it proceeds undeterred with its clandestine program. Like North Korea, Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the diplomatic edifice erected in 1970 precisely to deter countries from going nuclear...