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...sets of professionals who have built their power on centuries of keeping secrets--lawyers and priests--are revisiting that tradition, partly as a way to repair their reputations in a world grown less tolerant of the powerful taking advantage of the powerless. More specifically, they are also fending off the modern reality of lawsuits. The latest evidence: policy changes last week by two very different organizations, the American Bar Association and the Catholic Church...
...could just about paper over Bangkok's skyscrapers with all the pink slips Asia's companies are handing out. Yet ask government officials or corporate chieftains if anything can be done to cure their economic ills and it's blank stares all around. It is as if they are powerless victims of some malevolent...
...wants people to be able to grow vegetables that they can sell or eat, to make some money, to send their kids to school. Sinar has no kingdom, just a neighborhood, but maybe he can be of more use out of power, trying to advocate for the poor and powerless before their frustration turns to rage...
That makes Nevadans angry and afraid. They are worried that radioactivity from the underground storage facility could eventually leak, contaminating nearby groundwater. They have protested with lawsuits, letter-writing campaigns and public demonstrations near the site in Nevada where nuclear devices were once exploded. Yet they have been powerless to block the project. Nevada has long been the Federal Government's atomic playground (928 nuclear bombs were detonated at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 to 1992), and the state's politicians haven't had any clout in Washington...
...writ of the international tribunal does not extend beyond the sidewalk outside its chambers. Like many other international institutions, from the IMF to NATO, the tribunal is a subsidiary of Pax Americana. These institutions are granted more or less formal independence, but absent the U.S., they are powerless...