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...they allowed hunters on part of their land, they could make money from the occasional shooting of a cheetah, but made nothing if they kept killing the cats themselves. Meanwhile, Marker helped encourage the Namibia Professional Hunters' Association to enforce strict limits on the number of cheetahs shot. The logic was simple: shoot too many cheetahs now and there won't be any to shoot later...
They pointed across Harvard Yard to a crowd of subdued students carrying posters and placards, quietly clustered around President Neil L. Rudenstine's office in Massachusetts Hall. All of a sudden I saw the logic. They thought that I was a spy sent from across the Yard to infiltrate the University's administrative headquarters and carry some hapless administrator down the stairs in a commemoration of the "Harvard riots...
...male security guard said this, the backdoor opened and two women came out. I came down from the steps to talk to the guards, hoping that the developments of the past few minutes might shame them into admitting the logic of my point of view...
Chances are we won't be able to remember exactly what the arguments were for keeping Elian here or for sending him home. Instead, we'll remember media-crafted images, because that's what this whole case has been about. There's no legal or emotional logic; there's only the mind-numbing parade of made-for-television snapshots: The self-righteous Miami Cuban-American community, chanting and mugging for the cameras; the indignant lawyers; the self-serving talking heads and the political posturing. If we're really lucky and concentrate hard, we'll remember the bemused expression...
...first true teacher of zealous advocacy. I continue to use his logic of public interest lawyering in my work teaching the next cadre of public interest lawyers," said Ogletree, who studied under Bellow...