Word: die
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...reason for the original banning order, but now they could say they were detaining him for trespassing. In early September, after 22 hours of interrogation--90 pages of notes from the inquest describing that process are included in Biko--he had suffered severe brain damage, from which he died six days later. Woods reports that Biko was not treated as a particularly dangerous enemy of the South African state while in prison. He was simply another black, and as such, had no rights, not even the right to die with dignity...
...batsmen looked unwilling to die in their half of the 11th, as with Mike Stenhouse on second and Mark Bingham on first with two outs, Jim Peccerillo ripped a shot back to the box that handcuffed Brandeis pitcher John Griffin only momentarily before he threw out the Harvard left fielder...
...There is a saying in the Talmud," he adds, "that if it is God's will for you to die, you will die no matter where you are." I, however, am a believer in free will--and more importantly, a believer in the power of Palestinian mortar...
...meantime we have to assume that the blackmail of the state, and not only the Italian state through the kidnaping of political leaders, is a technique that we have to live with, and our leaders sometimes die with, to make willingness to be a sacrifice to the law a condition of rising to greatness. There is a price to be paid for the luxury of ambition. The brutality of this view (here is suffering flesh and blood, the law is only an abstraction) is, however, less reprehensible than the assumption we have all started to make, and not just because...
...Good courses never die," Walzer said yesterday, adding that Beer's influence will continue through his former students...