Word: forgottenness
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...prison, Valentine fell in love with the warden’s daughter who visited him from time to time. Before his death, Valentine wrote her a love letter signed “from your Valentine.” Although we still maintain this letter writing tradition, we have forgotten to heed the more important lesson of Valentine’s actions, integrity in love. Certainly men who must hire detectives to spy on women have forgotten this essential truth...
...crimes tribunal in the Hague this week, it will mark a moment many despaired would ever come. The Serb strongman and former President of Yugoslavia who pre-sided over a decade of mass murder and mayhem across the Balkans seemed untouchable for so long, and then became almost forgotten as the world's attention fixed on a new global villain. Yet Milosevic will now have to sit each day in an austere courtroom, flanked by two U.N. guards, to answer to charges of crimes against humanity - even if he does remain defiant as ever...
Amid the widespread disapproval of her lifestyle, any good works she did tended to be forgotten. True, Margaret could be a difficult, high-handed presence - who often demanded deference even from her friends. But her many adopted charities greatly valued her efforts on their behalf. And she dutifully slogged through her allotted round of ribbon cuttings, provincial trips and hospital openings. Patron or president of more than 80 organizations, she worked hard for the Guide Association, the Royal Ballet and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, a particular favorite of which she had served as president...
...West Djukanovic's star has clearly faded since Milosevic's ouster. Foreign Minister Lukovac recalls with rancor how the President and his allies were once the West's darlings when Montenegro was a base for funding the anti-Milosevic opposition. "All that is now forgotten," Lukovac says. "We are, it seems, disposable friends." But Western officials still must deal with one reality that is not easily disposed of: those Montenegrins who want independence, come what...
...quickly we have forgotten Reagan’s legacy...