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...over. The Ad Board's west coast agents have found us and the Stanford officials are powerless to save...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Seeking Asylum at the Harvard of the West | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...Duehay said the city is virtually powerless to control the landlords' growing financial ambitions...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gentrification to Increase in 1999 | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

TIME writer-reporter John Cloud believes the numbers reveal that "the Pentagon as an institution isn't behind the policy." Implementation, he says, "largely depends on the commitment of the commanding officer. The situation is one in which the commander-in-chief is largely powerless to enforce his own policy." Though the discharge numbers are up -- and something of an embarrassment for the Pentagon -- the new policy has improved the situation for gays in one significant way: "Homosexuals no longer get a dishonorable discharge when they leave," says Cloud. "That means they get to keep their benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More and More Gays Being Discharged From the Military | 1/22/1999 | See Source »

...wealth. A great part of the force that carried out the attack came from certain gulf countries that have lost their sovereignty. Now infidels walk everywhere on the land where Muhammad was born and where the Koran was revealed to him. The situation is serious. The rulers have become powerless. Muslims should carry out their obligations, since the rulers of the region have accepted the invasion of their countries. These countries belong to Islam and not the rulers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Osama bin Laden: Conversation With Terror | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Despite his individual merits andaccomplishments, he never hesitated to lend a handto the poor, the voiceless, the powerless and thedowntrodden," he said...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Higginbotham, Revered Justice, Dies of Stroke | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

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