Epitaph

The difficulty of being Ukraine
International Herald Tribune; 12/23/2009; 1140 words; ...know how to balance East and West. Ukraine holds presidential elections next month, and the outcome is likely to spell the epitaph of the Orange Revolution. The euphoria of 2003-04, when a grand display of "people power" reversed a rigged election...

BAH HUMBUG! He based one of his most famous characters on what he took to be a miserly Scot, but Dickens got it wrong about the original Scrooge.(News)
The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/22/2009; 1417 words; ...granite, he copied down the name and the particularly insulting epitaph in his notebook. That was in 1841. The visitor was Charles...are left disappointed. His gravestone and its inspirational epitaph was removed and destroyed in 1932, making way for new developments...

Win over Black Cats proves a fitting send-off.(Sport)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 12/21/2009; 651 words; ...Byline: SIMON STONE MANCHESTER City came out on top in a seven-goal thriller with Sunderland which proved to be the epitaph to Mark Hughes' time in charge. At least his players gave the former Wales player and manager, from Ruabon, a fitting...

Fitting send-off for Sparky
The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/20/2009; 880 words; ...and off the pitch spiral out of his control that it was though his stars and the fates had conspired to compose a 90-minute epitaph for his tenure. What a ride it was while it lasted, it read. Hughes has presided over the most exciting period in this club...

BRUTAL; EASTLANDS MELTDOWN: AXING OF HUGHES LEAVES CITY IN CRISIS.(Sport)
Sunday Mirror (London, England); 12/20/2009; 1302 words; ...Patience was wearing thin. One win in 10 League matches before yesterday's farewell triumph will go down as Sparky's epitaph - even though City have lost fewer games this season, two, than any other side in the country. Predictably, the City players...