Word: grave
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...parchment that has been written on more than once, so that the earlier writing has been scraped away but still sometimes remains faintly visible. Translated into design terms, palimpsest stands for the idea that, given a chance, the history of a place can and will rise from its grave. It's the notion, for instance, behind a persistent argument in Berlin, where architects, city planners and ordinary citizens periodically squabble over how much of the footprint of the Berlin Wall should be remembered along the streets of the quickly redeveloping united city. And it's an idea fundamental...
...approach emerged from more than a month of work by National Security Council aides - and after the Iraq Study Group called the situation in Iraq "grave and deteriorating" and Americans cast an unalloyed vote of no-confidence in the Iraq war at the polls in November. But rather than heed all the advice of those who proposed he engage the region diplomatically and begin a staged withdrawal from Iraq, Bush has gone his own way. And now that he has, his new approach raises at least three big questions...
...that Harvard is nothing more than a conservative and self-perpetuating society of rich old white men, who need nothing more than the selection of the 28th white male Harvard president to vindicate them. With people on both sides waiting with bated breath for our university to make a grave misstep in either direction, we find ourselves in a textbook case of "damned if you do, damned if you don’t." No matter who is selected, the selection will be viewed as reactionary rather than a reflection of the merits of the individual chosen, and will thus reflect...
...person per square mile. There are approximately 35 cattle per square mile here and nearly all of them are in deathly trouble. At one feedlot, an estimated 2,500 cattle are dead. And more snow is in the forecast. As many as 340,000 cattle in Colorado are at grave risk. The herds in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma will also be decimated - as will the region?s agricultural economy...
...those who value pluralism and a strong press, it was a grave set of developments. Now, as laughter subsides from the latest incident of tom-foolery, Australians are left to ponder the bleak outlook for 2007 and fear the future of the country’s besieged media...