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...Russia department at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, says German dependence on Russian energy supplies will increase, in part because of a growing belief that Russia "is the best alternative to the Middle East. If something happens in Saudi Arabia we are powerless. But Russia is cooperative in many cases. Europe has considerable influence on Russia." Ambiguity To an extent, there's some hypocrisy in Western fears about Russia's energy sector. Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies notes, for example, that the national energy companies in France and Italy are also...
...with baked squash, wheat-berry porridge, Vermont-cheese fondue, Indian pudding, parsnips, maple-apple pie and even elk and emu meat. But now that they have nothing to prove, they're reverting to August, as are two Vermont groups. Why make the effort at all? McGovern says she feels powerless to fight the globalization of the food supply, "But locally, I can vote with my food dollar three times a day--breakfast, lunch and dinner...
...they serve as federal judges, University administrators, CEOs, and highly paid lawyers. Top officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the Mexican government are among their ranks. But about five times a year, they come to Harvard. And in Cambridge, they are—formally—almost powerless...
Some Things Never Change March 17, 1981 Every few years, students here wake up to the fact of their own powerlessness. In 1978, for example, after a year of intense activism on campus, the Student Assembly was formed. Though students realized it had no formal power, they reasoned a representative body for all undergraduates might wield some influence. But the victories of the assembly have been few and far between—it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring...
...where a love of fair trade and free markets converge. Supporting fair trade coffee and hating taxes are not contradictory attitudes. When an individual buys fair trade, he voluntarily chooses to pay higher prices to support sustainable agriculture in small cooperatives in developing countries. When taxed, however, citizens are powerless to prevent corporate subsidies from being showered on American farmers, ceding their moral authority to the government...