When he opened it, I saw a large diamond shaped like a rose.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

- Is that good? Is that my color?- I like it. I liked that dusty rose one, too.

VOA: standard.other

"I think the bloom is off the rose but I don't think they quite knew who else it could be, or how to make it be someone else or facilitate a free and fair election.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

But I think as time went on after the Rose Revolution, I think he wanted to perpetuate this kind of system in which there was really absence of checks and balances, no real opposition included in the political process very much sort of governing by committee of the inner circle, of loyal allies around the president.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01