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Most years, The Crimson doesn't endorse a candidate for Undergraduate Council chair. Most years, we simply don't see a need to worry too much about a body that is relatively powerless on campus...
...typical of a childhood anywhere," Kincaid says. "I was miserable. A child is a powerless person. Powerless people are always miserable...
...overarching theme in her work, she says, is the powerful and the powerless. That embodies the relationship between mother and child, between colony and empire--and today, though perhaps not forever, between Black and white...
...over the next three weeks for training exercises. Saddam may think that the President's political weakness at home will make it more difficult for him to muster support for renewed action against Iraq -- and at the same time more damaging for him to give the impression of being powerless in the face of Iraqi provocations. Bush may have been thinking along & the same lines last week when he insisted that Saddam will be made to comply with all terms of the cease-fire. Said the President: "He may not know it, but he's going...
Menacing as it sounds, the fantasy in Cop Killer is the fantasy of the powerless and beaten down -- the black man who's been hassled once too often ("A pig stopped me for nothin'!"), spread-eagled against a police car, pushed around. It's not a "responsible" fantasy (fantasies seldom are). It's not even a very creative one. In fact, the sad thing about Cop Killer is that it falls for the cheapest, most conventional image of rebellion that our culture offers: the lone gunman spraying fire from his AK-47. This is not "sedition"; it's the familiar...