Word: powers
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...efforts paid few dividends, Power said, and his family was decimated in the Holocaust...
...Forty-nine members of [Lemkin's] family were exterminated in the Holocaust," she said. Lemkin eventually migrated to the U.S., where, according to Power, he worked tirelessly to convince the U.N. to ratify the Genocide Convention...
Even when the U.N. approved the convention in 1948 it was a bittersweet victory for Lemkin, according to Power. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the convention, and Lemkin died a year later...
...cause passed to William Proxmire, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, Power said. Proxmire made a speech every day for 19 years in the Senate until the convention was finally ratified...
Undoubtedly, part of Napster's appeal is the free music it offers. But an even bigger attraction is that Napster actually works--easily in fact. Napster is streamlined, straightforward and self-explanatory. Napster puts power in the hands of the consumer--power to access an incomparable selection of MP3's, power to choose precisely which songs to download, all with amazing speed and ease...