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...easy to imagine why he needed to gather his men that night and urge them, as he recounts in his journal, to continue. When they had arrived at the edge of this plunging valley, Caley noted that it seemed "to bid defiance to any man." Going down was brave, says Ian Brown, who leads the Mount Tomah group. A modest, quietly spoken man with a wry sense of humor, he was one of the three men who in 1997 became the first Australians to walk unassisted to the South Pole. "Then again," he adds, "he probably saw that ridge over...
...offices by armed security forces in balaclavas, harassment of the company's attorneys and the selective, retroactive application of new legal principles. If the Russian state can come down so heavy-handedly on one firm, the pro-Yukos camp argues, everyone is at risk. "It would be a very brave person that concluded Mr. Khodorkovsky is the end of the trail," says Tim Osborne, managing director of Menatep, an investment fund created by Khodorkovsky and his allies that owns 61% of Yukos...
...Super Man Actor Christopher Reeve [MILE-STONES, Oct. 25] was paralyzed from the neck down as a result of a horse-riding accident in 1995. Afterward he devoted his life to publicizing the need for scientific research to successfully treat and heal spinal-cord injuries. TIME reported on his brave determination in an Aug. 26, 1996, cover story...
...delight of Gates and the Department of African and African American Studies, Soyinka agreed to brave the cold weather and return to the Du Bois Institute as the inaugural Alphone Fletcher Junior Fellow for the 2004-2005 academic year...
...many Sunni areas in central and western Iraq plagued by insurgency, U.S. and Iraqi officials have expressed doubts that a credible vote can be held in Sunni areas unless U.S. forces take back the rebel-held cities. Even if U.S. troops do, the task of finding Sunnis willing to brave intimidation from militant groups may prove even more difficult. In the absence of strong moderate voices, the insurgents have been able to consolidate power by portraying themselves as defenders of Sunni interests and threatening or killing those viewed as cooperating with the U.S. "For the past year, the only Sunnis...