Word: powerlessness
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...cover the Board of Overseers, Vigeland devotes two pages to listing all 30 with their business affiliations, in the process misspelling the name of Stephen Stamas '53. He makes no effort to explain why the Overseers are a big, powerless joke with no influence over the seven rich old white men who comprise the omnipotent Harvard Corporation...
...been almost eight years since Eden Pastora Gomez, the Sandinistas' legendary "Commander Zero," stormed Managua's National Palace, paving the way for Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle's flight into exile. Soon feeling % powerless in a government that he charged was run by Communists, Pastora helped form the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) and began receiving covert U.S. aid to fight the Sandinistas. But the funds were cut off when Pastora refused to cooperate with other rebel forces...
...should be resolved casually or decided by a small minority of Harvard undergraduates?" Why then have such elections? The statement is particularly bizarre in light of her statement earlier in the letter that it is the Corporation, not the Overseers, that decides investment policies (and if the Overseers are powerless in this matter, why the great effort to see that the divestment slate loses?) What would be less democratic that the six-person, self-perpetuating Harvard Corporation...
...EPISODE underscores the enormity of our Catch-22. The terrorist threat is an amorphous, elusive one that leaves us few opportunities to fight back. When concrete targets avail themselves, the U.S. should strike, although in striking, we risk incurring reprisals that we are almost powerless to prevent...
Exactly one month after becoming President, Corazon Aquino appeared last week, clad in her trademark yellow, to announce her agenda for reviving democracy in the Philippines. Scrapping the 1973 constitution introduced by her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, and dissolving the effectively powerless National Assembly dominated by Marcos' followers, she imposed a provisional constitution that allows her to rule by decree until a new charter is agreed upon. Within 60 days, Aquino promised, she will appoint a committee to draft a fresh constitution. Three months after that, she hopes to put the document to a national plebiscite. If all goes well...