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...article warns us that he is building the "world's largest underground chemical-weapons plant" to produce nerve gas [WORLD, April 1]. Industrialized and developing countries are equally threatened by megalomaniacs playing with the most destructive gadgets man has ever created. Democracy is threatened, and the superpowers seem as powerless as banana republics. HELENE THIBAULT Ottawa...
Here, at Harvard, we are over 2,000 miles from the Utah wilderness. But this doesn't mean we are powerless. Last Monday, at a talk co-sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee and the Harvard Wilderness Alliance, a packed room of over 60 students and community members attended a slide-show on the endangered redrock canyon country of Southern Utah given by Mr. Harvey Halpern of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Letter writing campaigns have generated more than 450 letters and will continue until we defeat this bill. Students can make their voices heard by writing or calling their...
...know what it's like to feel poor and powerless," Stout said, describing how, while growing up in the rural South, she would often spend hours cleaning, in the hopes that "if I picked up everything enough people wouldn't call me 'white trash...
Buchanan took advantage of every opportunity he had to portray himself as someone who would stand up for common citizens who feel powerless against the federal bureaucracy...
...greatest aspirations as a columnist has been to bring poorly publicized but still pressing issues into the collective awareness. Often, the people hurt by a particular injustice are those most powerless to defend themselves through legislation, finance and the media. It is important to give these people a public voice, however small, that they might not otherwise have...