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...Last summer, I had planned to work with the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, a non-ideological organization dedicated to the protection of human rights in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. This region is known for its large number of rural and forest-dwelling communities as well as for its rich mineral deposits. The day before arriving in Chhattisgarh, I learned that Dr. Binayak Sen, the human rights activist and doctor I had been planning to work with, had been arrested on counts of terrorism. He is still in jail today, nearly one year later...
Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University’s $35 billion endowment, made an offer late last week to take over a lumber company holding over 200,000 acres of forest in California—enough timberland to cover Cambridge 48 times over...
Citing HMC’s policy to not discuss specific investments with the press, University spokesman John D. Longbrake would only confirm that Harvard has “expressed interest in acquiring the forest assets...
...soldiers swarmed over the shattered plane, shooting and killing its U.S. pilot, Thomas Janis, and the Colombian officer, Luis Cruz. They stripped the remaining Americans -Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves - of their clothes and belongings, put the men in chains and led them toward the mountainous rain forest...
...eyes. He had even started writing poetry again. “To tell about those woods is hard, so tangled and rough,” one of them started. It was intolerable.She saw Frederick there through the library window, urging his horse and a dozen hounds off into the forest. As his figure disappeared into the foliage, she rose and moved like a trapped starling to the door. Her novel, “The Accommodating Footman,” was left abandoned on the floor. Felicity would go to the stables and become undisguised and naked...