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...blame for the Katrina tragedy??lies with the people who chose to live in the devastated region. The idea of living below sea level in a hurricane-prone area is insane. People should make better choices. I hope, against all probability, that New Orleans and other flooded areas are not rebuilt. It would be a waste of lives, resources and money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 10, 2005 | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...fire and the fury dramatized the dimensions of a new American tragedy???the inability of the U.S. to extricate 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants and the unstable, faction-torn government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. In a startlingly bold but tragic gamble, President Jimmy Carter had ordered a courageous, specially trained team of American military commandos to try to pluck the hostages out of the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Tehran. The supersecret operation failed dismally. It ended in the desert staging site, some 250 miles short of its target in the capital city. And for the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debacle in The Desert | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...different example of the personal trouble?and indeed tragedy???that may be related to the Calhoun bank's liberal lending policies was the apparent suicide of LaBelle Lance's brother, Beverly Banks David, a Jefferson City, Mo., school official. He was found dead on Nov. 24, 1974, in his car; he had started the engine while the garage doors were closed. When his Missouri estate was probated, his solely held assets were valued at $4,177. His wife was astounded to find, however, that the Calhoun National Bank claimed he owed it $254,222. Northwest Georgia Bank in Ringgold lodged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lance: Going, Going... | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...undeniably the handiwork of two people: Richard Milhous Nixon and Henry Alfred Kissinger, the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs. For what they accomplished in the world, what was well begun?and inescapably, too, their prolonged and so far indecisive struggle with the Viet Nam tragedy???the two are Men of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon and Kissinger: Triumph and Trial | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

AMERICA'S TRAGEDY??? James Truslow Adams? Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Books | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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