Word: fatalism
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...some fans, rooting for the home team from stadium risers or the local pub isn’t sufficient: they join team-affiliated street gangs (called “firms” in the British context) and engage in bloody, often fatal, conflicts with the gangs of rival clubs. The seductive nature of this type of violence is “Green Street”’s thematic domain...
...state of denial. That was in part because we've faced hurricanes and evacuations before, and in part because we didn't want to acknowledge the possibility that a catastrophe of biblical proportions was about to change our lives forever. Mistakes were made?too many of them fatal and irreversible?on all levels. Although there must be a thorough accounting of what went wrong and why, I beg the media to focus on the kindness and strength of the human spirit that we are seeing now. Just as with 9/11 and the Indian Ocean tsunami, good can come...
...state of denial. That was in part because we've faced hurricanes and evacuations before and in part because we didn't want to acknowledge the possibility that a catastrophe of biblical proportions was about to change our lives forever. Mistakes were made - too many of them fatal and irreversible - on all levels. Although there must be a thorough accounting of what went wrong and why, I beg the media to focus on the kindness and strength of the human spirit that we are seeing now. Just as with 9/11 and the Indian Ocean tsunami, good can come...
Sometimes my task was to seek the families of murdered men, a wrinkled police brief and a taped-over map to guide me. On one of my better days I found the dead man’s girlfriend standing at the site of the night’s fatal gunshots, her hands on her hips, scrutinizing the spot where the body had been found, half on sidewalk, half on grass. The scene had been swept clean of everything except an empty bag of Fritos...
Where’s Snoop?”—that was the question on everybody’s mind last spring after the Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) planned Snoop Dogg concert hit a fatal snag...