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Since its installation in the funereal Peace Palace donated by Andrew Carnegie shortly before World War I, the World Court in The Hague has been a graveyard of political illusions. Lacking an effective executive to enforce its decisions, hamstrung by conflicting bilateral treaties, and limited to advisory opinions on issues of worldwide import, the Court of International Justice is like a traffic cop without a whistle...
...Harvard Summer News fluorscent-lit graveyard of once-proud academics, invites you to its summer formal dinner-punch-get-together-social-thing. 7-7:15 p.m. Thursday at the CRIMSON building, 14 Plympton St. There will also be a discussion of openings for writers and photographers...
Speaking at the annual convention of the Americans for Democratic Action. Galbraith said Vietnam would be "the graveyard of the old policy" and added that "it is worth hoping the policy is all that gets buried...
Lights Out. Trouble was, complained the island's merchants, the strollers were window-shopping and little else. "Sales have dropped 50%," wailed the owner of two woolens shops. "This is not an island, it's a desert," snarled a tobacconist. "They're trying to make a graveyard," complained Restaurateur Otello Caporicci, "out of the historical center of Rome." The aggrieved merchants banded together, turned out the lights in their shopwindows in protest. Some restaurants even served food by candlelight. Meanwhile, outside the island, traffic piled up on the perimeter in an angry, tooting wall of vehicles, often...
Years later an old soldier told one researcher that he had been paid 10,000 rubles to remove a body-apparently that of the fake Alexander-from the tomb and bury it in a small graveyard back of the fortress...