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Since then, the airwaves have been flooded with Clinton administration officials' pleas for support. Amidst all that noise, it's difficult to pinpoint the core of the plan.
Recently, the increasing number of pleas for human respect for flora and fauna have drawn on deep emotions and the moral imperative of conservation efforts. But until now, Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen lay Gould has remained peripheral to the conservation fray, scoffing at what he calls the " shibboleths of...
During the campaign, Clinton said he was "appalled" by the Bush Administration's policy of returning Haitian refugees before hearing their pleas for asylum. He called the policy cruel and immoral, and promised to reverse it.
Nowhere is it more brilliantly manifested than in his lawcourt drawings: the pompous judges, the robed lawyers whispering their deals and making their pleas, the cavernous Piranesian spaces of the anteroom to the Palace of Justice known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, or Room of Wasted Steps, the frightened...
It seems so easy to stay on the sidelines, content with our statements of horror and pleas for restraint. Intervention appears messy and frightening, just as it did in China and Ethiopia.