Dying peasants harvested the spring crops under watchtowers.

The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005.

Populist movements harvest that ambivalence and discontent.

HIV AIDS continues to claim more lives.

The total death toll was 270,000 in three years, about 150,000 in excess of normal mortality.

Others were compelled to make a payment to the authorities before they could harvest their crops.

The Soviet American duopoly had given way to a Sino American duopoly, which won a combined 20 of the medals.

And then that first year, October '05 through '06, Kiva facilitated 500,000 in loans.

The Nobel Prize is held in high regard in Japan, which is home to the second highest number of Nobel Prize winners after the United States.

The next day, candidates who advocated backtracking on European integration captured one third of the vote in the first round of the French presidential election.

Nowadays the two largest parties can rarely hope to muster two thirds of the popular vote. Not infrequently they have to form a grand coalition.

As a natural regional leader, Serbia can expect to reap the benefits as all states advance toward membership.

In recent years, many more people have died in the conflicts in Sudan and Congo than were killed by the tsunamis.

Saddam Hussein was responsible for two major wars, in which hundreds of thousands died, many by chemical weapons.

To boot, we have been told that government is so clever that it might even make money on the whole affair.

Urbanization itself is also a source of risk, as evidenced by the recent earthquake in China, which has cost at least tens of thousands of lives.

Far right groups infamously dubbed the attack by which at least 30,000 people were killed Dresden s Holocaust of bombs.

On December 6 last year, Evo Morales was re elected President of Bolivia with more than 60 of the popular vote.

Or consider Tony Blair s landslide victory in 2001, when Labour won 40 of the vote with turnout of 60 .

To boot, we are told that government is so clever that it might even make money on the whole affair.

Reaching a peaceful solution to this conflict, which continues to claim lives and devastate communities, however, will require that both sides follow through with those commitments.

Nepal has been the victim of senseless violence perpetrated by terrorists, which has taken a great toll in terms of lives, and has had an adverse impact on young people and prevented them from engaging in constructive processes.

The acquisition of medals, precisely because it gives so much satisfaction, has become the object of scientific inquiry and national endeavor. Before the 2012 Games, the Financial Times combined four economic models to produce the following consensus prediction of gold medals (the actual results are in brackets) 1.

In this winner take all environment, only a small number of those who have taken programming courses will reap a majority of the rents.

Over the next few years, budding superstars, such as Jorginho and Paulo Sérgio, joined the team, as did Czech star Pavel Hapal.

The highest level of deaths on the battlefield was recorded between 1998 and 2001, with about 80,000 soldiers, policemen and rebels killed every year.

PRAGUE The enormous suffering of the Burmese people caused by the recent cyclone, which has caused tens of thousands of deaths, deserves the sympathy of the entire world.

That plot, which could have claimed more victims than the 9 11 attacks, was foiled by the vigilance of the British intelligence authorities.

In the United Kingdom, the film had combined sales of 513,000 units on its first day of release, of which 107,730 (21 ) were Blu ray Discs, the highest number of first day Blu ray Discs sold.

First, why should a country concentrate on accumulating trophies at the expense of other desirable goods? And, second, can the formula for picking winners in sports be replicated for competitive success in international trade?

But in the last 16 years it has begun to reap the fruits of genuine democratic competition, because an independent judiciary and electoral commission gives people confidence that their vote can make a difference.

The new movie Star Trek , based on yet another remake of a television show from more than 40 years ago, surprised everyone by raking in 76.5 million on its first weekend.

What makes the result so complex is that the ruling AKP got far more votes up 13 percentage points from 2002 but fewer seats than it had before.

The US neocons, with their wishful thinking, grossly underestimated the scale of the task at hand unlike the revolutionaries in Iran, who quickly moved in to reap what the US had sowed.

When describing his conquest of Chanderi in 1528, Babar offers gruesome details of the gory slaughter of many infidels but just a few sentences later he talks at length about Chanderi s lakes, flowing streams, and sweet water.

According to current United Nations estimates, more than 80,000 Syrians are dead, and 6.8 million one third of the country s population need urgent humanitarian assistance.

First, why should a country concentrate on accumulating trophies at the expense of other desirable goods? And, second, can the formula for picking winners in sports be replicated for competitive success in international trade?

NAIROBI The attack that killed more than 70 people at Nairobi s Westgate shopping mall last week was, according to al Shabaab, the Somali Islamist militant group that carried it out, retribution for Kenya s intervention in Somalia.

In the most recent elections in the Muslim world which are those in Pakistan, those in Morocco and those in Turkey in each case, people who present themselves to the electorate as Islamic democrats were far and away the most successful vote getters every place they were allowed to run freely.

A harvested field of grain, with some grain in the corners, reminding me of the Hebrew tradition that you may indeed harvest, but you must always leave some on the edges, just in case there's someone who has not had the share necessary for good nurture.

In addition to the risk posed by the fiscal cliff in 2013, the main problem remains the lack of effective counter cyclical fiscal policies for example, a public investment program to boost economic activity. Instead, the US has placed all of its chips on monetary easing, unleashing what I have called a currency war, in which global investors, chasing higher yields, flood into emerging countries, driving up their exchange rates.

But, perhaps most importantly, the PRI reaped the benefits of the best investment it has made in recent years the permanent publicity campaign that turned its candidate and now President elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, into Mexico s most popular political figure.

Globalization exacerbates the unequal distribution of resources throughout the world, and many countries and peoples do not share in its benefits. Worse yet, many of those countries and peoples lack the ability to make their voices heard in decision making on international development.

Noting with profound concern that 39.4 million people worldwide are living with HIV AIDS, and that the HIV AIDS pandemic claimed 3.1 million lives in 2004 and to date has orphaned 15 million children,

In the aftermath of the international financial crisis of 1997 1998, many emerging markets found themselves through currency depreciation, rapid productivity gains, or both highly competitive.