Word: defendent
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...most of history, humanity just struggled to survive in an unforgiving environment. Only in the past century or so did we start to dominate nature and overrun the planet. Rather than defend ourselves against nature, we began to realize, we needed to defend nature against ourselves. Thus was born the environmental movement. These pages recognize men and women who helped give us this awareness--and pointed the way to protecting the only home we have...
...when the team traveled to Brown on Friday, it might have seemed as if the hardest challenge had passed. Instead, the Bears (12-11, 4-3 Ivy League) upset the Crimson in a closely contested 4-3 match. The loss ended Harvard's chance to defend its Ivy League title and also eliminates the chance for a NCAA tournament appearance...
...continued to defend the United Farm Workers and took on more activist clients, including the radical Black Panther Party...
...point. As his lawyer Childers chooses Col. Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones '69), a close friend whose life he saved in Vietnam. Hodges is a recovering alcoholic who has just retired-he was never a very good lawyer, but he feels that he owes it to his friend to defend...
...friend, but when he visits Yemen to look for evidence, he witnesses first-hand the effects of Childers's attack and is mortified and subsequently falls off the wagon. But this, the one aspect of this movie that could be interesting or thought provoking-that Hodges has to defend a friend who he believes to be guilty-dissipates into thin air. Hodges simply forgets all that he saw in Yemen and vigorously defends his friend. The audience keeps wondering where the moral ambiguities are going to set in and cause suspense, but the film has such a clear idea...