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Evidently recognizing some of the inadequacies of apartheid, Botha set out to change parts of the system. Perhaps his most notable accomplishment was the creation of separate, if largely powerless, houses of Parliament for the coloreds and for the Indians. Earlier this year, as part of its effort to remove some of the rough edges of apartheid, the government decided that mixed marriages and sexual relations between whites and nonwhites would no longer be forbidden. But these reforms, important as they may be in the context of South Africa, meant little to blacks and did not affect what apartheid...
...appearances a reasonable man, Rob says in many areas of life women doubtless feel powerless, but in the Family Court the opposite is true. More than once, he says, a judge has given his ex-wife more than she's asked for. "The mother is seen as the nurturer," he says. The attitude is, "she knows how to relate to children, while fathers...
...meeting of a “toxic atmosphere” in Cambridge. Professor of Sociology and Department Chair Mary C. Waters described tenured academics “held hostage to fear,” insisting that their dissenting e-mails be destroyed before being read by a University president powerless to fire them. Cruel punishments, no doubt, await Rabb Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair Arthur Kleinman, who swore openly to “show the public that we are not cowards, we are not spineless, and we are not with you.” Thomas Professor of Government...
...stopped paying attention, where would he be?" Every week she spends two hours sitting in his math class, making sure she knows the assignments and the right vocabulary so that she can help him at home. And despite all she sees and all she does, she says, "I feel powerless there...
...Until recently, they were virtually powerless to improve their lot. The country's only legal union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, is an 80-year-old Communist Party institution that for decades has aligned itself more closely with management than workers?in some cases its local branches are even headed by factory owners. Independent unions are banned, and workers suspected of organizing strikes are routinely jailed...