In ours, it burbles and fizzes and gives delight, but fails to pop amid the apocalyptic grind of recent news cycles, with grave tension at all turns.
The area is a killing ground littered with mass graves and tensions are running high.On October 13th colleagues, families and supporters of the missing students staged violent protests against the governor of their home state, Guerrero, setting fire to the state government building.
The prospect of talks with the Taliban has already resurrected old ethnic tensions; grave talk of civil war runs quietly in the corridors of diplomacy.
It referred to the "grave nature of international tensions and struggle" and "the protracted nature of contest over the international order".
The crisis, American officials say, is far more grave than the political tensions between the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and the country's Sunni Arab minority set off by an arrest warrant on terrorism charges issued in December for Tariq al-Hashimi, the Sunni vice president.
Nor has China given clues about its intentions in its public statements, voicing grave concern about the rising tensions while being careful not to elevate Mr. Kim's stature.
Mr. Xi did not single out any countries or disputes, but in separate remarks, China's Foreign Ministry repeated its "grave concern" over the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
That tension continues to the grave.
But there's also a fine and scholarly piece about cave paintings in Kentucky, the iconography of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (aka Southern Death Cult) and the complex tensions between archaeologists and grave-robbers.
A surge of sectarian violence in Cairo — 24 dead, more than 200 wounded and three churches in flames since President Hosni Mubarak's downfall — has turned Christian-Muslim tensions into one of the gravest threats to the revolution's stability.
