Word: grave
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They gathered by a grave tucked into fields of yellow rape flowers high in the Himalayan foothills. There, a dozen-odd guardians of China's last free-flowing rivers unveiled a memorial to a fallen comrade, an activist who had died of a heart attack in January. But their mission had another motive. Following the ceremony, they traveled into remote regions of Yunnan province to gauge opposition to a spate of new dam projects and offer assistance to vulnerable peasants trying to stop them from being built. This wasn't a secret trip. Plainclothes police videotaped everything. Undeterred, the outsiders...
...seemingly unachievable goal was achieved. Yet while calling for divestment from PetroChina was certainly appropriate in this situation, there were other times this year when divestment seemed to be the catchword—the cure-all—for Harvard’s complicity, however tangential, to a grave world problem...
...spring, meetings became instead intense, intelligent discussions of how to fix poor management at the University. Seeing the administration “behind the scenes” this spring has reaffirmed my faith in the genuine concern of professors for the education Harvard provides—and increased my grave alarm about the current top leadership of Mass. Hall and University Hall...
...more debt, albeit at low interest. But you have to excuse homeowners for getting a little giddy. When they look at the rest of the economy, they see little else to be excited about. Employment has picked up, but wages haven't. Inflation has risen from the grave. The stock market is crawling to get back to where it was five years ago. Savings accounts throw off barely enough interest to feed a parking meter. Companies are cutting pensions, and politicians are making dire noises about Social Security. It's a scary message people are getting: We are heading toward...
...while Hariri is a martyr who transcends Lebanon's sectarian divides-his grave in downtown Beirut has become the city's most popular tourist attraction-the circumstances surrounding his assassination are still cloaked in mystery. The bombing site remains cordoned off by police tape, the street littered with the gnarled remains of cars burned by the blast. A U.N. fact-finding mission concluded in March that the Syrian regime bore "primary responsibility" for the political circumstances leading up to Hariri's assassination, though Damascus has denied any involvement. A U.N. team arrived in Lebanon...