Since a rough-edged peace came to this battered country in 1997, tourist visits to the Angkor temples have risen from almost zero toward a projected one million in 2005.
"Only a novelist with Gordimer's gifts can offer so much information, at such depth, about the cataclysmic battles and the rough transition to peace that she and her characters have witnessed," Francine Prose wrote in the Book Review.
Only a novelist with Gordimer's gifts can offer so much information, at such depth, about the cataclysmic battles and the rough transition to peace that she and her characters have witnessed, a war she survived to report on to us, her grateful readers.
Even with American help, the best Karzai and his Kabul government can hope for is to appoint the least-bad warlords as civilian governors to keep a rough-and-ready peace and collect some taxes.
-- Tour guides may bring in groups to what is, I guess, a better-known site than the others; but you can't miss the sense of peace in the rough, rocky grotto in which tradition says John received the Book of Revelation.
Idriss D?, Chad's president, told the visiting secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that he would offer leaders of the fragmented rebel movement in neighboring Sudan the opportunity to meet in Chad beforehand to help them "smooth over the rough edges" prior to the peace negotiations.
It has been a rough few years, and the peace, tranquility and economic rewards of a more private existence undoubtedly beckon.
Perhaps that evening commute is the only bit of peace between a rough work day and the responsibilities that await you at home.
But in the year since, Mr. Aquino has received a rough reminder that the quest for peace in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, one that goes back more than a century, remains as difficult as ever.
The last years were rough, but the Lord will give you peace and no pain forever more.
