For nearly 9 years, Gen. Musharraf was our double-gaming, unreliable (and certainly undemocratic) "ally" in our enterprise to mop up what Rumsfeld- Franks & Co. failed with grave consequences to mop up inside Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11.
Research on the Tuva burial mound, known as Arzhan 2, began in 1998, and to the amazement of scholars the grave was discovered to be untouched, though failed attempts by grave robbers to locate the burial chamber were evident on the sprawling, 185-foot-long, 5-foot-high mound.
But they failed to inflict grave damage.
The company had a staff of some thirteen hundred engineers, but it was overwhelmed by demands on its time, and crash investigators discovered that those in charge of the signal performed only a "lax" inspection, which "failed to discover grave flaws and major hidden dangers".
The detailed study showed a third of banks were willing to dismiss serious allegations of corruption made repeatedly by credible sources, while others claimed to have run extensive money-laundering checks even though they had failed to spot grave allegations of criminality instantly found by a simple Google search.
But the world's most failed state still faces grave challenges.
Still, the clashes this week, like so many before them, failed to reflect such grave convictions.
A tie vote meant that the resolution failed, thus precluding the grave consequences of which administrators had warned.
One of the greatest mysteries of recent Spanish history will remain unsolved for the foreseeable future, after a team of archeologists admitted they had failed to find the grave of poet and playwright Federico García Lorca.
Excavations at the same site two years ago failed to find the grave, which is now believed to lie beneath a car park and office building.
