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...novel aren't outraged as they come to suspect Kazuki of murder. Instead, they plot ways to use Hidetomo's death to their financial gain. The only characters that seem shocked at all are a low-level yakuza and an orphaned peer of Kazuki's, both of whom seem powerless in the face of their own realizations. Power, Kazuki realizes, is just another word for money...
...script. They blew the big guns out of the competition. In just over three hours the three stars contrived to lose to players all ranked outside the world's top 50. Third-seeded Agassi lost in three sets to Thailand's Srichaphan, while the second seed Safin seemed powerless against the clever play of the Belgian Rochus. Afterwards Agassi and Safin admitted they had not been able to play well. But Sampras, who had won the Wimbledon title seven times in the last nine years, was stunned by his defeat. During the match, he read and reread a cheering note...
...American churches have rallied in support of the Montagnards. The White House has granted special refugee status to the 900 currently in Cambodian camps, which speeds their emigration to the U.S. But Washington is powerless to do anything for those who remain in the highlands. Y Mphiap, who fled Vietnam last year, says tribes staged the mass demonstrations to attract international sympathy. Overseas diplomatic pressure was supposed to force Hanoi to give back their land, he says. Instead, secret police rounded up protesters and put them in jail. Y Mphiap and 22 of his fellow villagers headed for the jungle...
...Here is where, I suppose, I should tell you whether to watch the video. But I won?t. We feel compelled to cast judgments about viewing images of terror because terrorism seeks to make us feel powerless, and taking an absolutist stance - Don?t look at that! You owe it to the dead to look at that! - is a way of reasserting control. To say that there is some value in looking, but no shame in averting your eyes, places one in that squishy gray area in which we have to live. Having watched the video, am I better informed...
...amassing power or winning elections, they don’t tell us anything about the ends to which our efforts should be applied. They tell us how to change the world, but not how the world ought to be changed—and without this knowledge, we are truly powerless...