Word: graveness
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...Jones was buried beneath a prominent headstone. They stopped, and Gregory Kirchner made his way to the burial site of his old comrade-in-arms. His son described the scene: "My father uses a walker to get around and does well with it. As we stood silently at the grave my father's knees buckled, and we had to help him stand. It was a case of life imitating art, as in the scene from Saving Private Ryan...
...Opposition candidate Alejandro Toledo withdrew late Thursday from the May 28 presidential runoff election against President Alberto Fujimori, after Fujimori's government refused to comply with a call by election monitors to postpone the poll. The monitors of the Organization of American States, with Washington's backing, had expressed grave reservations over irregularities in the first-round ballot - won by Fujimori, but without a sufficient majority to avoid a runoff - and urged postponement in order to resolve problems including candidates' access to the media, monitors' access to the polling stations, and the bug-prone software used to tabulate results...
...Palestinian street and of his Arab allies makes it almost impossible for Arafat to accept the current Israeli proposals on the West Bank and Jerusalem." The "peace of the brave" of which Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin spoke has long since followed the slain Israeli leader to the grave, and whatever messy outcome concludes the current process is likely to be, at best, the peace of the sullen. More ominously, though, the current breakdown may point to the eventual creation of a Palestinian state under conditions that amount to little more than a cease-fire...
...luminaries to help him push the NAFTA trade pact through an ambivalent Congress, the great plugging sound is back - this time to get China into the WTO. On Monday, it was a letter of support signed by Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush the elder, and a grave nod from Alan Greenspan. Tuesday it was Carter, Ford, Henry Kissinger and James Baker alongside Clinton and Gore in an East Room press-fest to tout the wondrous effects free trade will have on the Big Red One - and on American business. Democratization, capitalization, improved human rights in China, more jobs...
...first, the Norse traded locally around the Baltic Sea. But from there, says Fitzhugh, "their network expanded to Europe and Britain, and then up the Russian rivers. They reached Rome, Baghdad, the Caspian Sea, probably Africa too. Buddhist artifacts from northern India have been found in a Swedish Viking grave, as has a charcoal brazier from the Middle East." The Hagia Sophia basilica in Istanbul has a Viking inscription in its floor. A Mycenaean lion in Venice is covered with runes of the Norse alphabet...