Word: stone
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...five-day schedule for a recent tour to the D.P.R.K. (my second, the first being in 2007) was packed tight with sightseeing. On arrival in Pyongyang, our coach whisked us from the airport to the Arch of Triumph, an imposing stone monument commemorating domestic resistance to Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the 20th century. At 200 ft. (60 m) high, it is willfully more immense than the Parisian Arc de Triomphe on which it has been modeled. Around its base, the scene was almost as it was two years ago. The 10-lane boulevard cutting through...
...found Ferguson's first picture particularly arresting. With the menacing shape of the night-vision scope, the weird light it throws on the soldier's face and the camouflage blanket which turns him to stone, it made my flesh crawl. What better image could there be of the dehumanizing effect of warfare? I would unhesitatingly vote it picture of the year. Eric Jarman, WEINSTADT, GERMANY...
...upperclassmen are setting an excellent example,” Stone said...
...She’s tireless,” Stone said. “That goal came out of pure guts and tenaciousness. That’s what we were looking for when we recruited her, and that’s what we hope to get from her for the next four years...
...just have to keep working on getting better,” Stone said. “Individually and collectively, getting better every week and every...