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...Powerless Petitioners "Nothing Left To Lose" told of the thousands of Chinese who travel to Beijing seeking government redress for injustices like unpaid wages, unpunished crimes and corruption by officials [March 1]. Your report overemphasized the inability of China's petition system to bring about justice. Come on! We Chinese would be more worried if the petition system really worked. Then something fundamental would be very wrong. In every country, including communist China, the right way to find justice is through seeking legal redress, not sympathy from government bureaucrats who have no legal power. Instead of questioning the efficacy...
...quick hands of Bulldog guard Alex Gamboa, who had four steals, and Draughan, who added three to go along with his game-high 17 points, quickly led to a shift in momentum that Harvard was powerless to counter...
Three, there’s nothing you can do about it—the weather, that is. But that doesn’t mean you’re powerless...
...Showcasing an extensive range of photographs from India's princely states, the book opens a window into the private lives of the maharajas, who collectively constituted one of the most pretentious?and powerless?aristocracies in history. During the raj, the British directly ruled about half the Indian subcontinent. The rest it subcontracted to a colorful crowd of nawabs, rajas and maharajas, allowing them all the pomp and ceremony they wanted and even some autonomy?but no authority over issues like defense and foreign affairs. Some royals, such as the Kings of Mysore, Baroda and Travancore, were enlightened rulers who promoted...
...years, if a woman missed a birth-control pill, tore a condom or engaged in unprotected sexual intercourse, she was powerless to prevent pregnancy. The 1999 introduction of the emergency contraceptive Plan B, known as the “morning-after pill,” allowed some women to avert unintended pregnancy. But barriers to obtaining the emergency contraceptive—available by prescription only—precluded it from becoming a viable back-up plan for most women...