THE rippling fireof the tiger, the cuddliness of the panda, the viridian flash of the green-cheeked parrot, allargue that thesemost-endangeredspeciesshould be saved.
The blacksmith had the ramrod out and he was shoving it into the muzzle, pumping and pumping and pumping furiously, his hand already on the trigger, and he was ready to fire, strangely calm with the tiger there, almost on him, its whiskers so close and surprisingly bright and rigid.
Case in point the death of Tamil Tiger rebel leaders in Sri Lanka, or the Nigerian government signing a cease fire and amnesty deal with MEND rebels in the Niger River delta.