Word: laden
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Nearby, painted wooden slaves work at routine tasks. There are also bakeries, granaries, and tables laden with food—Djehutynakt apparently spared no daily comforts when planning for the afterlife. The statues are rudimentary. The slaves walk with stiff, jointless limbs, and their figures seem to lurch rather than to move. Despite their rigidity, the figures exude a captivating energy. Several models show slaves feeding oxen, the prostrate beasts reaching their heads forward to the hands of the kneeling slaves. This is an aspect of Egyptian life not captured in the impersonal statues of kings...
...worst men in the world, the Osama bin Laden of Europe, has finally been captured." - Richard Holbrooke, U.S. diplomat, who brokered the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia in 1995, on the arrest of Karadzic after Karadzic's almost 12 years on the run. (CNN, July...
...killing other humans. I often wonder if my father has killed so many times that the act of killing no longer brings him pleasure or pain. I am nothing like my father. While he prays for war, I pray for peace." (Read "Eight Years After 9/11: Why Osama bin Laden Failed...
...adult and free from his father, Omar talks about starting a worldwide peace movement. But having spent much of his life in the wilds of Afghanistan, his ideas about how the world works are hazy. The U.S. government is unlikely to start a dialogue with Osama bin Laden, as he suggests. Another idea, a horse race across North Africa, seems more appropriate. Perhaps a world where people are kinder to animals will be one where they are kinder to one another...
...Read about Omar bin Laden's bid for political asylum in Spain...