Farewell!

For a long time, I thought that was how elderly people said good bye.

The same welcome rituals, surely for the farewell this time. They put our valuables into bags and tether us to a long chain.

Maryam Sheybani, a journalist who wrote for Ham Mihan, says it was very, very difficult to say good bye to our journal.

They dressed you up, they lined you up, and you smiled for the fucking camera like they told you to or you could kiss your birthday party goodbye.

I flew to Cleveland, and my family rushed there in hopes that they would meet me and say what we knew might be our final goodbye.

Dima, Al Sayib said sternly. You know you're like a brother from another mother to me, but... cheating an Arab is unforgivable. Goodbye!

A few hours ago, millions of people gathered in Rome and around the world paid a final tribute to Pope John Paul II.

I'm a little bit uncomfortable with the thought that these are my last hours on this planet, that I be put to sleep, and some of you my friends will say a final goodbye, for the last time.

Though my mom couldn't say goodbye to me before the surgery, she didn't leave my side in the months of recovery that followed.

I pray for mercy and forgiveness for him and may his bereaved family and the people of Kuwait have the patience to deal with this calamity.

In a farewell interview on 60 Minutes in 2011, Rooney said Reasoner was a great writer in his own right but was lazy, giving Rooney more opportunities to show his writing skills.

MADRID With the moribund Doha Round of multilateral free trade talks awaiting its last rites, a new wave of regional trade negotiations has de facto taken up the mantle of establishing a global trade regime.

Before concluding, and as our colleague and neighbour Ambassador Volker Heinsberg bids us farewell, I would like to remind him of the words of farewell addressed to him by my Ambassador, François Rivasseau, last week, knowing that he would not be here today.