Word: griefe
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...almost impossible to deliver in a place as remote, dangerous and complicated as Somalia. Those who try to help too often come to grief: according to the United Nations, eight of its staffers and 24 aid workers have been killed this year. As a result, "the humanitarian space is effectively closed," says Ken Menkhaus, the U.S.'s leading expert on Somalia and a professor of political science at Davidson College in North Carolina. The 3,000 African Union peacekeepers don't stray far beyond their base in Mogadishu for fear of being slaughtered by insurgents--remember Black Hawk Down...
...adopted a markedly darker tone. Dancers in plain white tunics shook their bodies to create a disturbing rumble with the outline of two towers in the background. The dancers, who clumped together in interlacing formations with collectively supported individuals in various lifts, seemed to hint at the unity and grief that arose from the 9/11 tragedy. The performers’ masterful execution of Dao’s intricate choreography was especially noticeable in the partnering passages, where the pairs moved with both precision and remarkable emotional potency. The final image of the dancers covering their faces in quiet devastation...
...almost surreal that it was finally election day after all the efforts the club had put into campaigning. The mood at the HRC party was notably more solemn than that of the much larger IOP celebration. “They say that there are five stages of grief, and right now I’m in the stage of denial,” said HRC member Jordan A. Monge ’12. Well before the race was called in Obama’s favor, Republican students acknowledged that their presidential candidate was the underdog. Still, they held out hope...
Once the town hall stuff fell through you guys became much sharper against Obama and took a lot of grief, especially from the press, for about a lot of those attacks on Obama...
...been executed, Elena appears on stage, wearing the white lab coat in which she entered the show. Her face and body are riddled with bullet wounds, her heel is broken, her hair disheveled. But she does not express remorse for anything she has done; she expresses anger and grief at her perceived mistreatment and the lack of appreciation that her “children,” the people of Romania, have shown for her.“I was a stern mother...I starved your present to ensure your future,” she laments. “Because...