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Revenge dramas are as old as Medea (she tore her sons to pieces), as hallowed as Hamlet (seven murders), as familiar as The Godfather. High drama is about the conflict between shades of good and evil, often within the same person. But it's easier to dream up a scenario of slavering evil and imperishable good. This is the moral and commercial equation of melodrama: the greater the outrage suffered, the greater the justification for revenge. You grind me down at first; I grind you up at last. This time it's personal...
After the football team clinched the Ivy League title this year, Penn students stormed the football field, tore down one of the goalposts, marched to the Schuykill River and threw it in. And students loyally followed the basketball team to Princeton to see them capture the Ivy title and then tore down the Tigers' own nets. Some students even flew to Seattle to see the team play in the NCAA tournament...
...though the blitzkrieg Milosevic launched didn't quite accomplish that, it has already remade the face of Kosovo. Some 40,000 regular Serb troops, special police, paramilitary units and ultranationalist gangs tore through Kosovo "with complete ferocity," says a NATO official. "The intensity was not anticipated." And now NATO is scrambling to revise its war plan in a race against time. "He's working very, very fast," said NATO commanding General Wesley Clark, "trying to present the world with a fait accompli...
...loss damaged more than the Crimson's pride.Harper, one of the team's top attackers, spent the second half on the sidelines icing down her ankles.Later tests proved that she tore ligaments, and she is expected to miss a couple of weeks...
...loss damaged more than the Crimson's pride. Harper, one of the team's top attackers, spent the second half on the sidelines icing down her ankles. Later tests proved that she tore ligaments, and she is expected to miss a couple of weeks...