AFTER all the foreign blood and money spent on trying to turn a poor, wrecked country into a unified state and a functioning democracy, much has been riding on the drawn-out presidential election.
In 2009, he wrecked a speedboat into a submerged pier along a South African river.
In the decades they have lived here, raising two daughters along the way, it has flourished from a Tuscan wreck into a bohemian monument to creativity.
Mr Yunus was no doubt familiar with microfinance innovations in other countries: BRI in Indonesia had transformed itself from a wreck into a huge success by emphasising savings, not credit, and other institutions had started to abandon group lending.
In "Stay the Course," Jane Brody says she gave her dog glucosamine and chondroitin, which changed her "11-year-old spaniel from an arthritic wreck into a companion with puppylike agility".
Shortly after Christmas, Maritza Tschepp expects to be evicted from the home she transformed, over 33 years, from a leaking wreck into a cosy house where she raised three children.
It was the biggest match of Millot's life and over the course of two hours he transformed from a nervous wreck into a stadium court showman, orchestrating the crowd, before Murray won the last 23 points in a row to end his fun.
Remarkable, isn't it, how this cover -- illustrating Sunday's NYT Mag lead story on Iraq -- manages to reduce an otherwise complex multi-ethnic, multi-party train wreck into a simple one-liner?
A naked, drunken man wrecked his car into a tree in East Pierce County while having sex with the woman who started out in the passenger seat, @wspd1pio says.
Just as Ursula attempts to kill Ariel, Eric steers a wrecked ship into Ursula, stabbing her to death with the ship's splintered bowsprit.
