Word: lamentably
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...feet wet in his quest to discover modern Russia. One day he braved floodwaters to visit the small farming community of Bichyovka, plagued by heavy rains. An old babushka, who obviously did not know the identity of the visitor, shrilly confronted Solzhenitsyn with a timeless, rural Russian lament: "The roads are full of water. Why can't you do something about it?" Said Solzhenitsyn: "I'm not an official. I can't do anything." It was a humble admission from a literary giant, proving the biblical dictum that prophets have no honor in their own countries...
...predominately Tutsi rebel movement that now seems destined to form the next government of bloodstained Rwanda, that is a haunting lament. As they press their advantage against government troops and murderous Hutu militia, the rebels of the Rwandese Patriotic Front are beginning to realize how little of their tiny Central African homeland will be left for them if and when the R.P.F. takes control. Mile upon mile of terraced hillsides and thatch-roofed villages lies deserted. The reek of decomposing bodies and packs of well-fed dogs serve as the only reminders that this was once one of the most...
...Western governments are willing to risk their own soldiers to help Rwanda. Public outrage in Britain may be growing, but Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd answered an opposition member's challenge to act in Rwanda with the lament that there was no clear mission for British troops. Memories of the 18 soldiers lost in Somalia make the U.S. especially reluctant to intervene in a largely ethnic bloodbath in a strategically insignificant nation. Although both the U.S. and Britain voted two weeks ago in the Security Council to send a 5,500-strong U.N. force to Rwanda, Italy is the only...
...striking. Quayle is hardly the first to notice that Brent Scowcroft, not Baker, was the real architect of most of Bush's foreign policy successes. Nor is it news that Kemp can be an aimless talkaholic or that Baker looks out for No. 1. Even Quayle's closest advisers lament that the book lacks anything approaching a Quayle vision of the future. "It's a funny book," said one of them. "It's less of a positive conservative agenda for the future than a look back...
...covering Richard Nixon's trip to China, Lelyveld for a book about South Africa) who have spent their adult life at the Times. Both reflect a newsroom esprit de corps that approaches religious fervor. Both are political liberals who preach the importance of balance and fairness. And both lament that economic pressures led to staff buyouts over the past couple of years but say the Times still has the resources it needs...