Word: graving
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...follows court conversations with avid interest, breathlessly tallying the putdowns and comebacks. Hand-held, it wavers gently during a love scene, in accordance with the tenderness of the moment. It also plunges through fields and over water for a flight to the countryside. Or it remains breathlessly still and grave for a duel, one of the sober possible endings to this game...
...Harvard students we have a certain amount of power. People listen when Harvard speaks, even if it doesn't have much to say. If we squander our energy working for ourselves, we lose this voice, a voice with the potential to help people in genuinely grave situations. The underprivileged of the Boston area, human rights abuses worldwide, the environment--these are all worthy pursuits for students seeking to capitalize on the resources and reputation of this institution...
Lebed failed to notice the approaching danger and even dug his own grave by starting quarrels with major political figures like Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov and presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais. And although Yeltsin has had trouble with his health and with control of the Kremlin, firing Lebed was not risky, since most of the Kremlin's leading figures wanted him out anyway. Yeltsin planned the coming and going of Lebed from the very beginning, and Lebed naively gave him a helping hand. SANDER ANTEN Amsterdam Via E-mail...
...state's chief medical examiner confirmed that it was Lopatka's body that the police had dug out of a shallow grave in Glass's yard. Glass, a county-government computer programmer, is charged with her murder. His attorney says Glass maintains that Lopatka's death was an accident that happened while the two were having...
...There also were disagreements on how Rabin should be remembered. His family, which holds Netanyahu partially responsible for the political climate that contributed to Rabin's death, wanted a national day of mourning. After the government denied the request, Rabin's family asked that Netanyahu not speak at the grave site. -- Josh Dubow