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...term on murky charges of illegal business dealings?has suffered frostbite while in solitary confinement where he has spent much of the winter sleeping on the bare cement of his sub-freezing cell. Guards denied her request to bring him a blanket. "I was so angry but felt so powerless," says Liu, a ticket seller in a Beijing park for the past 20 years. In their letter the two invited i.o.c. members to meet them personally for "a true and complete inspection of the city...
There is a common belief around the University that the council is a powerless body. However, after this discussion last Sunday evening, I share the frustration of council members whose suggestions are faced with such a restrictive policy...
...felt it necessary to state precisely the extent of the labor I had put into this job, and to emphasize that as a consultant I was powerless to exercise any control over the use that was made of my advice," she says. "That is a foreign feeling to a scholar...
Women like Gertrude were brought up to be subservient to men. Especially in matters of sex, the man is always in charge. Women feel powerless to change sexual behavior. Even when a woman wants to protect herself, she usually can't: it is not uncommon for men to beat partners who refuse intercourse or request a condom. "Real men" don't use them, so women who want their partners to must fight deeply ingrained taboos. Talk to him about donning a rubber sheath and be prepared for accusations, abuse or abandonment...
...state's largely self-inflicted energy wounds are rich in irony. A deregulation plan that was supposed to cut electric rates has instead more than tripled what some California consumers pay and has proved powerless to slow a tenfold increase in the state's wholesale prices. And instead of pulling regulators out of the utility business, the plan has plunged Sacramento and Washington ever more deeply into it. Last week Davis, who has called the deregulation plan a "colossal and dangerous failure" while also railing against "out-of-state profiteers," signed an emergency order that empowers the state's water...