I watched her and had sad thoughts about the impermanence of beauty.

Like his own body, Arafat s familiar world was steadily fading away with irreversible loss of control.

As Australian and Japanese initiatives fade, attention now turns to ASEAN, which has put in place norms for peace that all major powers affirm.

Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, joined the chorus of critics, complaining about the fading of political power in a time of globalization.

And he will have to praise the decline of unions and the shedding of benefits by firms and argue that individuals will make better choices than union experts or firms benefit departments.

The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany s labor intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.

Confronting continued, albeit fraying sanctions, Qadaffi threw his weight behind the pragmatists, turning the Lockerbie bombers over to face trial, renouncing the terrorism that he had promoted, and expelling the foreign terrorists who made Libya their home. In 1999, the Security Council responded by suspending sanctions.

Confronting continued, albeit fraying sanctions, Qadaffi threw his weight behind the pragmatists, turning the Lockerbie bombers over to face trial, renouncing the terrorism that he had promoted, and expelling the foreign terrorists who made Libya their home. In 1999, the Security Council responded by suspending sanctions.