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...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...
...Jenkins, who has previously been charged with “playing in the street” at other anti-Bush and WTO protests, draws from his vast protest experience to assert that the police were being particularly harsh in this case...
...given the popularity of the Man and Woman of the Year awards—popularity founded on the awards’ history, humor, and uniqueness—the production on which the vast majority of Pudding members labor can sometimes be lost in the shuffle...
...minority religious and ethnic groups, and insists that the first priority of a new government is not only to be as inclusive as possible of those who participated in the election, but also to draw in those who stayed away - almost half the eligible population (42 percent), including the vast majority of Sunnis...
...time, Inouye’s remarks aroused the ire of a vast contingent of Harvardians, and students took up their own defense through a barrage of letters to the Daily and the Dean’s Office. One outraged Crimson columnist even employed the power of the press. In “The Harvard Syndrome,” published November 5, 2001, he argued that “the acknowledged fact that some Harvard students are lazy” and “the presence on campus of a few meatheads, legacies, and dim bulbs with bizarre talents?...