The killing of at least 18 people and a fresh wave of violence, lawlessness and looting has underlined the challenge facing Ivory Coast's newly installed president.
Along with this lovely plaything were buried the doll's miniature clothes, necklace, earrings and other jewelry as well as tiny combs, mirrors and a little jewel case, faced in ivory and bone.
The entire structure steps back as it rises, with five stories on Dartmouth Street, clad in the red brick characteristic of South End town houses, to 11 stories faced with ivory cast stone echoing the midrise office and retail buildings of the Back Bay.
As Thornton explains it, the challenge we face with ivory is that there is a small group of influential people who receive government protection, and they have been able to make a lot of money in trading in poached ivory.
She used Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, but washed her face with Ivory soap.
Technical examination suggests that Rembrandt was responsible for the man's half-shadowed face and ivory white collar.
The accomplice in the passenger seat is a young woman whose "face was ivory white" and whose "blue eyes were positively glowing with excitement".
But scientists tracking the animals' carcasses their faces and ivory hacked away—are seldom able to explain in detail what these deaths mean to the pachyderms' populations and social structure.
When Gray, who has a "face like ivory and rose leaves", sees his finished portrait, he breaks down.
African elephants are in crisis, facing an onslaught of poaching for the valuable ivory in their tusks.
But on Monday, Gutierrez found himself before a federal judge in downtown Los Angeles, facing his fate for involvement in what prosecutors described as the illegal ivory trade.
