Word: braves
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...helped document allegations that conservative clerics and politicians were behind vigilante attacks on reformers. The revelations embarrassed prosecutors, and Ebadi was jailed for 23 days on defamation charges. "She was worried, but she didn't let that stop her," her husband Javad Tavassolian, 60, told TIME. "She is very brave...
...books. Created by paternalistic do-gooders who simultaneously serve as legislators, blue laws are those bastions of moral purity, those pesky legal devices that regulate amusements and “immoral” activity—often keeping alcohol locked-up for certain hours or days. On Tuesday, the brave souls of the House Ways and Means Committee approved a bill that would reverse Massachusetts’ blue law that forbids the selling of alcohol on Sundays. On Wednesday, the House voted 87 to 64 to keep the restriction on alcohol sales on the books. But the measure will return...
Even the wimpiest Harvard students harbor dreams of Muhammed Ali glory. But few are brave enough to float like butterflies and sting like bees. FM’s Véronique E. Hyland takes a ringside seat in Harvard’s own version of Fight Club—boxing practice...
...tall and dignified African-American man who looks like an actor you would cast for the part of a Washington, D.C. judge. After he complimented us for our brave action and let us out of jail, I thought he looked not only cute but very wise. I was arrested after that for another action in the Capitol, and I certainly asked for Judge Hamilton, but they don’t do it that...
...typically remain nameless and faceless to the American public, despite being 90 miles from our shores. For every Armando Valladares—the Cuban poet who was held for 22 harrowing years before an international campaign helped gained his release in 1982—there are thousands of other brave souls whose pleas were never answered. Human-rights groups estimate that there are currently more than 300 “prisoners of conscience” in Cuba...