Hedges traces this alarming erosion of democratic principles back to the 1971 Powell Memo, a pivotal document that laid the foundation for the pervasive influence of corporate America over political processes.

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Mr. York Powell, lateregius professor of modern histor a t Oxford, said: “Theformation and expression of ethicarjudgments . . . is nota thing within the historian’s province.”

Raymond Queneau’s 100,000,000,000,000 Poems, a collection of 10 14-line sonnets with each page cut into 14 strips to allow readers to arrange them into a astonishing number of variations; Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood, a novel composed entirely of questions; and Geoff Ryman’s 253, which was originally published on the web in the form of a collection of hypertext links.

The reservoir, a central piece of the storage program for the Colorado River, provides water, hydropower and recreation to millions of people.