Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply another example of a tragic police error but the pathetic end to a long, quiet life of doing good. Williams, a native of Antigua, had spent 40 years as an itinerant pastor in the Caribbean. Ten years ago, he retired and moved to Boston with his wife to be near their only child, who was studying in the area. On the afternoon of March 25, he was at home in the apartment the police had targeted. An informant had told them that drugs and guns were stashed in a second-floor room at 118 Whitfield Street. With...
...cruel roulette of life, Waneta Hoyt seemed to be an especially tragic loser. Nearly 30 years ago, she lost her first child, Erik, suddenly and inexplicably. The mother tearfully told doctors that she found him barely breathing in his crib and could not revive him. He was three months old. Waneta's second child, James, was a little over two when, according to his mother, he called out after breakfast one morning and expired. A daughter, Julie, died at 48 days; her mother was feeding the child when the infant choked, turned blue and died. Another daughter, Molly, died...
Tales from the Admission Office: Inside sources over at Garden Street related this tragic story about the sorry fates of 100 would-be first years. Last Friday, the admission office was all ready to send off its hefty packages telling 1,600 some high school seniors that they were being granted the privilege of spending the next four years of their lives in Cambridge. At the last minute, those with the power to decide these things decided that a hundred of these bright-eyed teen-agers were not up to snuff, and so a hundred of those hefty packages were...
Aaron is symbol of the tragic consequences of a society obsessed both with food and standards of physical fitness and thinness. Some may wonder why I focus on him, when the great majority of victims of eating disorders are female. Yet male eating disorders deserve to be talked about because they so rarely are presented in the mainstream media or brought into the public consciousness...
...anyone outside his special circle, the fate of a young Texan named James would have seemed as predictable as it was tragic. The Austin restaurant worker had developed the telltale red-and-purple lesions and had suffered night sweats, diarrhea and weight loss. Then came the inevitable coda; his doctor informed him that he had AIDS. In fact, his T-cell count was down from a normal range of 800 to 1,200 to a depressing...