21.   The talks, rancorous and volatile, have proved a grim reminder of how far their peacemaking relationship has deteriorated and how much is at stake.

22.   They are all grim reminders of a controversial quarter-cent sales tax used to build a downtown baseball stadium.

23.   Other sites offer grim reminders of those who came to control or rescue Lebanon.

24.   At best, it only served as a grim reminder to all and sundry to exercise greater caution.

25.   Fifty years after its liberation, the Mauthausen death camp is a grim reminder of a dark role in the Nazi era that many Austrians would like to deny.

26.   Its decline is a grim reminder of how shaky are the prospects for peace.

27.   Last week, Lebanon got a grim reminder of the high price it has been forced to play by its geography.

28.   Meanwhile, in a grim reminder of how brutal the fighting has been, security forces on Monday found a headless and handless corpse in Air Salobar village.

29.   That he was the fourth prime minister in three years was a grim reminder of the power struggle in the coalition politics of Kathmandu.

30.   The day also brought a grim reminder of the chaos and danger pervading the Afghan hinterlands.