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...Playing with Fire Sister Dorothy Stang, who was murdered in Brazil [MILESTONES, Feb. 28], had received death threats from opponents of her campaign to save the Amazon rain forest. Stang had spent decades fighting to prevent the logging and burning of this rich resource. TIME described the disastrous effects of torching the Amazon in its Sept. 18, 1989, cover story...
DIED. SISTER DOROTHY STANG, 73, American nun who spent decades fighting illegal efforts by loggers and ranchers to appropriate land in the Amazon rain forest; after being shot in the face by gunmen just days after she met with Brazil's Human Rights Secretary to report death threats against local farmers; near Anapu, Brazil. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva responded to the outcry over her death last week by creating two vast Amazonian forest preserves and sending the first of 2,000 troops to the region...
...DIED. DOROTHY STANG, 74, American nun who spent decades fighting efforts by illegal loggers and ranchers to appropriate vast areas of land in the Amazon rain forest; after being shot in the face by gunmen, just days after she met with Brazil's Human-Rights Secretary to report death threats against local farmers; near Anapu, Brazil. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent federal investigators and the first of 2,000 troops to the region, calling for a crackdown on violence against land activists...
...Richard Dooling's brilliant new novel, Brain Storm, Judge Whittaker Stang, a Howard Cosell in robes, scolds an attorney who wants to try the killer of a "disabled person of color" for a hate crime rather than simple murder. The ambitious lawyer thinks that will make him look cuddly and electable in a run for the Senate. Throbbing with scorn, Stang tears into him: "Are we going to impanel a jury to inquire after just what kind of hate this degenerate had running around inside his head? And after we identify all the warped, deviant varietals of hatred...
...column. Well, maybe not. It is easy enough to mock the idea of hate crimes ("So where are the love crimes?"). Hate-crime legislation, critics say, is codified redundancy, unnecessary complication for real-world courtrooms already saddled with the heavy demands of proof. As Judge Stang says, you don't want to send hate off to the forensic lab to prove what kind it is. Unlike intent, he says, motive isn't a separate element of a crime. It simply provides narrative to sway a jury or give plot to a novel...