"It's always unfortunate when people in power start mixing politics with sports, " he said.
"The people in power were put there by fat cats, who have money and control, " Mr. Okun said.
Power is the key to change but also it tends to be temporary privilege for those people in power.
Rule-making would still require judgment, but it would be less subject to the whims of the people in power.
No one asks for scripts any longer, because the people in power have apparently become more comfortable with stand-up comedy.
People in power are always people in power, even when they have the best intentions and even when we live in a republic.
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Stern School of Business, was curious about these sorts of scenarios, so she put together an in-depth study of the extent to which people in power take advice from knowledgeable colleagues.
"There are people in positions in the criminal justice system who are supposed to be protecting us, there are people in power stopping cases getting through and blocking changes being made, " she said.
China has opened up new economic, diplomatic and strategic avenues for African states, but it is ultimately down to Africans, both the people in power and the man on the street, to negotiate on their own terms, identify priorities, and leverage opportunities to further their own interests.
Thus it is unlikely that any big changes would result if the same people are in power in Indonesia after the election.
Despite these worries, people in the power industry seem confident.
Mrs Arroyo first took power in 2001 in a genuine people-power uprising, that succeeded in booting out another prodigiously corrupt president, Joseph Estrada.
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The revolution of 1789 in theory made the people sovereign yet in practice left power in the hands of an elite ruling in the people's name.
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The storm destroyed sandy stretches of land along the Jersey shore and gave many on Staten Island their own Katrina moment, with over 100 people confirmed dead (over 1, 000 people died in Hurricane Katrina in 2005) and roughly one million people still without power in the regions of southern Manhattan, the Island and parts of New Jersey.
Gino describes one of her studies in which she asked a group of people to write about situations in which other people had power over them.
Mr. SHAPIRO: And he's also totally non-intimidated by the political process and by people in positions of power.
Researchers investigated whether people in positions of power that hold high standards for others actually live up to those standards themselves.
People in the shaky power group, in contrast, were actually harder on themselves, in a way similar to those in the low-power group.
It may also explain why people in positions of power sometimes indulge in highly questionable behaviors, such as tweeting inappropriate messages or pictures of themselves.
And as rocky as the economy continues to be, the number of people who engage in power holiday shopping the day after Thanksgiving continues to rise.
In that sense, the enemy when it comes to an incomprehensible tax code is us, due to the people we put in power and our desire to have some of our life choices subsidized.
Running parallel to the coalition's austerity programme is a bold plan for decentralisation: more elected city mayors, more people power in areas such as education, the NHS and policing, and unprecedented transparency and openness in the state.
And he said, well, you know, we're dealing with the U.S. government everyday, just because its people don't necessarily like the people who are in power, that doesn't mean that you can just say, you can just opt out.
They are quick to point to successes in the past, such as Corazon Aquino's "People Power" in the Philippines, which ousted the corrupt regime of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, or, more recently, the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine.
Founded in 2009, People Power is working on getting phone service providers and appliance makers to pre-install its software in their products.
But one thing it has already achieved is to awaken in people to the power of movements.
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Japan recently emerged to be a desirable market after its people lost faith in nuclear power post Fukushima.
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