Word: defendant
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...press her luck when she took in her first live game at Fenway last season. “I couldn’t find my Jeter shirt,” she recalled, “but my boyfriend said point-blank he wouldn’t defend me during a brawl, so maybe it was a good thing I didn’t wear it.”Let there be no mistake—Yankee fans are no angels. They’re overconfident, defenders of regressive economic policy, and are quick to lord over rivals with sepia-toned...
...animals from extinction. But global warming threatens to change all that, by altering the very foundation on which the conservation movement was built. What good is a wildlife reserve if the protected animals can't live there, because climate change pushes them out? What difference does it make to defend trees from logging, if global warming will allow a new pest to ravage whole forests...
...hope parents use good judgment and don't let their kids watch it," says Melissa Henson, communications director for the Parents Television Council. "It's not appropriate for children." These MMA critics get Kimbo's blood boiling. "I would rather have my son watch MMA and learn to defend himself from a bully," he says, "than have him watch the hunting channel and see some guy blow a deer's head...
Perhaps the subtlest of Probst's pictures are her portraits, in which people look into the camera in one shot and are photographed from a few degrees off to the side in another. "When they're looking at the camera, they're able to defend themselves," Probst says. "From the side, it's as if we're seeing them secretly...
...over the weekend. His choice of locale was not a surprise: Beijing. During the visit, there were predictable headlines in the press about Medvedev and President Hu Jintao denouncing U.S. plans for missile shields in both Europe and east Asia. The U.S. says they are to help its allies defend against possible attacks from Iran and North Korea. Moscow and Beijing don't really believe that, but the fact is, that train has left the station. Both countries, on their own, will have to decide how to respond should missile defenses...