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...after he was extracted from his "spider hole," these sources say, Saddam spit on his captor. As the incident was reported by the military, according to a U.S. source, a soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant--probably the first time in more than two decades that Saddam was powerless to exact lethal revenge on someone who stood...
...Another man with visions: he can see death coming but is powerless to stop it. Vaudeville mindreader John Triton (Robinson, in the first of two haunted Woolrich roles) has presentiments of doom for a child playing with fire, a newsboy heading into traffic, his own fiancee, her eventual husband. All of these quickly died. Now, 20 years into his premonitory curse, he has a forewarning of doom for his beloved?s rich daughter (Gail Russell). The world thinks Triton is mad, and he does too, but his conscience goads him to warn her that she will die under the stars...
After Harvard requested a timeout it had already spent, Kowalski stepped to the line and calmly knocked down both free throws. The Crimson defenders still had an eye on her, but as with each of the past three minutes, they were simply powerless to stop...
...They’re almost all just as socio-economically top-heavy as Harvard. But although Harvard is not a lone repository of wealth in the Ivy League, other top schools—even some Ivy League schools—do income diversity better, suggesting universities are not necessarily powerless in the face of societal inequality and that Harvard could be working harder...
...Skin's world, D.A. Thomas Roam (Kevin Anderson) runs his re-election campaign on an antismut crusade, while his target, Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), quips, "If the voters are so much against porn, why do I live in a 52,000-sq.-ft. mansion?" (And both men are powerless to control the hormones of their children, who meet and fall in love.) In Skin's world, a generation that grew up taking sexual liberties is rearing kids and now wants to take those liberties back, please...