Word: graveness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...faux-Socialist, one part seriously Communist, one part smokin’ hot. President Castro, fearless leader (or, you know, dictator) of Cuba for more than thirty years, transferred his governing powers to his brother in July 2006 due to illness. Despite having a foot and a half in the grave by all reports but the Cuban government’s own, Castro’s charisma, healthy facial hair, and daring sartorial choice of 24/7 combat boots and fatigues have created a larger-than-life image that will almost certainly outlive him. America has hoped for years that Castro?...
...Rights, it quickly becomes clear that Lady Logic has run away from us. Similarly, while China conducts executions en masse and then makes a profit off the bodies of the deceased, and the world claps its hands in approval, we can rest assured that objectivity lies safely in its grave. Such selective morality, which lacks any and all perspective on who the true enemies of human rights in our world are, is a farce at best, and a crime against humanity at worst...
...confess now, we will take them off now. If you confess tomorrow, we will take them off tomorrow. If you do not confess for a year, you will have to wear them for a year. If you never confess, you will have to wear them to your grave.'' ''What about it?'' another male guard said. ''Are you ready to confess? Just say yes, and we will take the handcuffs off.'' I looked at them all and said in a feeble voice, ''I've done nothing wrong. I have nothing to confess.'' The militant female guard tightened the handcuffs...
...gone off inside them and fractured the window glass, behind which is a red fire. He does not want to talk, but does, finally, when he has settled down. He says a Jewish settler came in a car and used an Uzi and killed his friend. The new grave is down at a crossroads by the mosque. An Israeli helicopter passes overhead. The friend of the dead man promises, ''We will never forget.'' Has Israel lost its way? Israelis may find the question offensive. It implies that the answer is yes. And further, that the asker knows the true...
...protest, the opposition parties have begun to boycott budget sessions in the Diet legislature. "We cannot accept that the ministry that deals with grave social issues like decreasing population is headed by someone who has demonstrated a complete lack of respect for the people," says Yoshiaki Takaki, head of the Diet policy committee for the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan...