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...pressure. "To us, music is life," says Black Spirits bassist Never Mpofu. Songs like Mapfumo's anthemic Huni ("Do not play with the people, because the people can revolt") and Mtukudzi's thoughtful Kucheneka ("Emulate those who are brave, those who went before you") remind the powerful and the powerless of the possibility of change. "The music is so important to the people," says Mapfumo. "Let's just keep our fingers crossed that it will work." Some people may wonder why it hasn't already, but then the liberation war took years. "We are a patient people," says Jacob...
...overwhelming preponderance of the 400 poems depict slavery as ugly, evil, despicable - which in turn raises other questions. How could slavery persist so long? Were these writers merely marginalized social critics, powerless to change things? Perhaps the answer lies with Percy Bysshe Shelley, the British poet, who wrote in 1820 that "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Perhaps all these writers shaped attitudes and sensibilites in the general public that eventually reached a critical mass, a tipping point that led - by both peaceful and violent means - to emancipation...
...sand the page edges (using machines Sakamoto designed) to give them a clean, unthumbed finish. The books hit the shelves at half the original price. Any book not sold after three months is slashed to 100 yen (about 85?). Sellers of new books, along with publishers and wholesalers, are powerless to fight back. By law they can't cut their own prices to compete. "He completely got us," says Akiro Kikuchi, president of publishing company Chikuma Shobo. "You've got to hand it to him. He is one smart...
Instead of regulating Indian gambling, the act has created chaos and a system tailor-made for abuse. It set up a powerless and underfunded watchdog and dispersed oversight responsibilities among a hopelessly conflicting hierarchy of local, state and federal agencies. It created a system so skewed--only a few small tribes and their backers are getting rich--that it has changed the face of Indian country. Some long-dispersed tribes, aided by new, non-Indian financial godfathers, are regrouping to benefit from the gaming windfall. Others are seeking new reservations--some in areas where they never lived, occasionally even...
...Powerless Play...