Word: vaines
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...should know. I was on the Drafting Committee of the Basic Law in the late 1980s and fought?in vain?the introduction of potentially Draconian clauses, including Article 23. While the Basic Law was still being drawn up, the Tiananmen massacre took place. It was a time when Beijing's leaders were not even sure about their own future. They were fearful that Hong Kong?where more than a million people took to the streets in the runup to the June 4, 1989, killings?would become a center for subversion. So in the second draft of the Basic Law, they...
...made movies before that have caused controversy and I think that's a good thing. There are a lot of movies out there that are just medication." Typically, filmmakers will hide a few facts behind artistic license, especially to make sure a hero's death is never in vain. "This is a dramatic movie, not a documentary," Bruckheimer says. "Veronica made a huge difference in Ireland and changed the laws. Unfortunately, she had to die first, but hopefully the country's better for it." The film does highlight the government's response to Guerin's murder: a zero-tolerance policy...
...fled before the U.S. dropped six smart bombs on his luxurious compound 70 miles west of Baghdad, and was then turned in to American forces by an informer. Yet Schneider, an IRS criminal investigator based in Pensacola, Fla., told TIME that he displayed no ill will toward the U.S. Vain and concerned about his appearance, Barzan did grumble about a tear in his safari suit and waved a hand to show his long fingernails, complaining that he had not been allowed to trim them...
Franklin's freethinking unnerved his family. When his parents wrote of their concern over his "erroneous opinions," Franklin replied with a letter that spelled out a religious philosophy based on tolerance that would last his life. It would be vain for any person to insist that "all the doctrines he holds are true and all he rejects are false." The same could be said of the opinions of different religions. He had little use for the doctrinal distinctions his mother worried about. "I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. And the Scripture assures...
...died in my hands." ELIYAHU SHMUELI, a Jerusalem city employee, describing his vain attempt to rescue a burning woman from a bus obliterated by a Palestinian suicide bomber in Jerusalem; 17 people died...