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You might think this is simply a grim example of something going seriously wrong.

In a grim example of fascist humour, the medical certificates of many of the dead reported the cause of death as "internal haemorrage".

And in a grim example of the law of unintended consequences, where urban communities do succeed in changing their neighbourhood for the better, the result is often higher rents, more interest from developers, and the gradual displacement of the very people who forced those changes into being.

Hence the occasionally bloody stalemate that is likely to continue into 2008.Sudan is a grim example of an Arab-run government, at the centre in Khartoum, deeply reluctant to embrace a federal solution for the non-Arab south and for Darfur in the west, for fear of losing power across the board.Yet models such as mainly Muslim Malaysia, or even Spain or Germany, could suit Arab countries.

India, one among the countries that suffer from high road fatalities, stands as a grim example of what we could all face if we were to ignore traffic issues.

(In a recent Nation article, historian Rick Perlstein cited a grim example of a chronic mentality: "the policy wizards in the Obama White House build a Rube Goldberg healthcare law that relies on states to expand Medicaid and create healthcare exchanges, and then are utterly blindsided when red-state legislatures and governors decline").

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To cite a grim example, think of how terrorists have, using comparatively limited funds, continually subverted X-ray mandines and other forms of airline security.

At first, the attempted murder of a travel agent by two gunmen on motorbikes seemed to be just another grim example of the lawlessness that plagues San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras – and one of the most of the most violent in the world.

Millwall's return to Luton co-incides with another grim example of the social dysfunction that so readily attaches to the Championship club.

It was by rebels supposedly on his side – another grim example of how Syria's revolution is now consuming its own children.

The grim example of Australia's centre-right Liberal Party, which deposed its leader in December after he backed an emissions-trading scheme, has not gone unnoticed.But worries about the Tories' commitment to the cause may be exaggerated.

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