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...international media? No, argues Brazilian Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who sees the trial as a clear demonstration that his country will protect the rain forest, along with the rubber tappers (seringueiros) and Indians who depend upon the trees for their livelihood. "Chico Mendes did not die in vain," he says. "We must and will put a stop to ecological crimes...
...start by skinning Torri alive, making incisions with a steak knife and ripping long strips of flesh from her legs and stomach while she screams in vain, begging for mercy in a thin, high voice. I stop doing this and move over to her head and start biting the top of it, hoping that she realizes her punishment is ending up being comparatively light compared to what I plan to do with the other...
Ramakant Chaturvedi, 26, showed no more tendency toward dramatic self- sacrifice. The son of a political-science teacher, he also came from a middle-class Brahmin family. After finishing college in Bhind, he tried in vain to get a government job but found it hopeless because of quotas that limit positions for upper castes...
Freedman, who is reportedly a candidate to succeed Bok at Harvard, stated his opposition to the "great books" approach to curriculum reform, characterizing programs structured around a standard canon of works as vain efforts to recapture an academic "Camelot...
...sick of injustice, and we are sick of excuses, and we will not let Professor Bell's sacrifice be in vain," Jan-Michele Lemon, a third-year law student, told the crowd...