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Members of the Penan tribe of northeastern Borneo know that Batu Lawi, a 2,000-m sheer limestone pinnacle, is a demon-haunted place to be avoided at all costs. To Bruno Manser, however, Batu Lawi represented everything he loved about the untouched forest of the region. He almost perished trying to reach its summit in 1988. As he told friends, he spent 24 hours hanging from a rope, unable to reach the rock face. Only a desperate swing brought him within grabbing distance of the rock...
...Fourteen months ago, Manser returned to Batu Lawi at the end of a 12-year personal crusade to help his adopted tribe, the Penan, preserve their landscape and their way of life from the cancer of all things modern: cash, Coca-Cola, television, but above all the mowing down of their native forest. If he had reached the summit he would have been confronted with glaring evidence of his failure: the verdant forest slashed by logging roads, a net of wounds bleeding orange mud, the animals largely gone. Manser had lived with the Penan in their jungle for six years...
...Like a modern Israelite tribe, the team leads a rootless, marginal life - eating at Joe's restaurant, but in the back, and sleeping on the bus. They survive on their faith in baseball. After several bad breaks, Noah gets persuaded to try a gimmick. They put a ringer from the Negro League in a costume and introduce him as the Golem of Jewish legend. Fishkin, the team's pinch-hitter, explains the legend: "a golem is a creature that man creates to be a companion, a protector or a servant. But only God can grant a creature a soul...
TIME's story on the economic turnaround of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, "Winning Big Without Casinos" [INNOVATORS, June 18], quoted me as saying our previous tribal chairman was "interested in government handouts, not development." That statement was misconstrued and taken out of context. In 1990 I asked Wayne Ducheneaux, the chairman at that time, what position the tribe was taking on the Indian Economic Development Act, which had been introduced in the Senate. He responded that the tribe had no position on it and that it was more interested in an agriculture bill that had also been introduced. This...
...Tribe and Halperin said that ACS hoped to emulate the Federalist Society’s success in creating a powerful network of legal professionals...