Word: powerlessness
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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...
Indeed we continually strive to emulate the remarkable leadership embodied in the life of President Kennedy. We are daily presented with crises around the world in which we as a community are often powerless to intervene directly. The recent assassination of one of Israel's greatest leaders, Yitzhak Rabin, has been one such case. President Kennedy and Prime Minister Rabin both represent the courageous martyrs of our times who remind us of the responsible role we must actively play on our campus, in the country and in the world community...