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  • Police: Inmate had threatened deputy with knife

    Nov 6th, 2009 - The Denver Post

    The Waukesha County sheriff's department says Steven P. Lettenberger, 43, was at the hospital for treatment Friday afternoon. Authorities say he tried to attack the deputy who was guarding him. The officer then shot Lettenberger...

  • Wisconsin authorities say inmate had threatened deputy with knife before being shot

    Nov 6th, 2009 - StarTribune.com

    WAUKESHA, Wis. - Authorities in Wisconsin say an inmate somehow armed himself with a knife and threatened a sheriff's deputy before the officer shot and wounded him. The Waukesha County sheriff's department says Steven P...

  • Wis. deputy shoots, wounds inmate in hospital

    Nov 6th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune.com

    WAUKESHA, Wis. - The Waukesha County sheriff's departmentsays a deputy shot and wounded an inmate in a hospital after theinmate threatened him with a knife. Forty-three-year-old Steven P...

  • Why the Berlin Wall came tumbling down

    Nov 6th, 2009 - Telegraph

    Why the Berlin Wall came tumbling downAll states have frontiers. East Germany, aka the German Democratic Republic, became a frontier that had a state. When the frontier dissolved, the state followed less than a year later. The Berlin Wall...

  • Fort Hood suspect said goodbyes before attack

    Nov 6th, 2009 - MSNBC

    FORT HOOD, Texas - As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier...

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Authorities from WikiPedia:

In government, authority is often used interchangeably with the term "power". However, their meanings differ: while "power" is defined as "the ability to influence somebody to do something that (s)he could not have done", "authority" refers to a claim of legitimacy, the justification and right to exercise that power. For example, whilst a mob has the power to punish a criminal, for example by lynching, people who believe in the rule of law consider that only a court of law to has the authority to order capital punishment.

Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject of research in a variety of empirical settings; the family (parental authority), small groups (informal authority of leadership), intermediate organizations, such as schools, churches, armies, industries and bureaucracies (organizational and bureaucratic authorities) and society-wide or inclusive organizations, ranging from the most primitive tribal society to the modern nation-state and intermediate organization (political authority).

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