First, a meeting between prospective donors in Paris to discuss the World Bank's poverty-reduction strategy was called off, and then the country was left off the G8's list of 18 nations marked down as the first beneficiaries of its debt-cancellation plan.
Standing before a list of the world's largest oil reserves by country, with OPEC nations marked by skull and cross bone logos, Levant failed to mention that Canada's "ethical" oil sands host.
Not to mention the continuing celebration of the 50th anniversary of the center, the largest performing arts institution in the nation, marking a major milestone in its $1.2 billion renovation.
Like F.D.R., Mr. Obama took office in a nation marked by huge disparities in income and wealth.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has compared Iran to the Nazis, as the nation marked its Holocaust Remembrance Day.
IN Israel, a nation marked by divides everywhere, a slender peace is being brokered between the religious and secular in an unexpected arena, contemporary dance.
AS the nation marked this terrible anniversary, people invariably turned to Wikipedia to learn about the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
This year as the nation marked the 30th anniversary of the so-called one-child policy, officials have been praising such measures for preventing 400 million births.
These lines by the Lancaster poet Laurence Binyon echoed around Britain over the past few days as the nation marked Remembrance Day.
Just three days earlier, New York City, and the nation, marked the second anniversary of the terrorist attack that took down the World Trade Center.
Eighteen years after attaining its much-lauded democracy, South Africa is becoming what author William Gumede calls a "restless nation" marked by disillusionment, anger and protest, particularly among the young.
