Word: braved
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...Chavez didn't let the press off the hook before she left the podium. "All of you have made a great deal more of this story than need be," she said pointedly, glaring at her audience. One corps member felt brave enough to bring up the subject of Zoe Baird, a Clinton nominee for attorney general, who lost that bid because of her own dubious hiring practices - and who was also criticized at the time by Chavez. The departing nominee brushed off the analogy, but others point out that Chavez's outrage at Baird's hiring of an illegal immigrant...
...George Washington and troops brave frigid weather to cross the Delaware River...
...answer, provided in James Carroll's fascinating, brave and sometimes infuriating history, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews (Houghton Mifflin; 616 pages), is St. Augustine. In the year 425, shortly after Christians slaughtered the Jews of Alexandria in the first recorded pogrom, the influential church father cautioned, "Do not slay them." He preferred that the Jews be preserved, close at hand, as unwilling witnesses to Old Testament prophecies regarding Jesus. Augustine's followers elaborated on the idea, writes Carroll: Jews "must be allowed to survive, but never to thrive," so their misery would be "proper punishments for their...
...office, she told her friend, finalizing the debut issue of [Inside], her company's new magazine. That's right, magazine--as in a sheaf of stapled-together pages covered in ink and distributed by snail mail. How ironic. How 20th century. Here she was, a brash entrepreneur in the brave new world of Web-based publishing, stuck with the old-fashioned job of selling ad space and shipping proofread pages to the printer...
...Closer to home, this was the year they cloned a pig, approved an abortion pill and took saccharin off the list of known carcinogens. It was also the year that gene therapy, having shown promise in treating a pair of French "bubble boys," suffered its first casualty--a brave young patient named Jesse Gelsinger, who underwent the experimental gene transplant not to save himself but to help other youngsters suffering, as he had been, from congenital disorders...