Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...related news, Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of last Aug. 31's car crash, today appealed for privacy for all the families involved "to let us mark this tragic anniversary in our own way." Rees-Jones taped a statement for APTV, the Associated Press's international video news agency, saying he would make no further public comments until the conclusion of a judicial inquiry into the crash in Paris...
...narrative--a messy, lesser tale that in a society uncontaminated by race hate would have been universally dismissed as a hoax--merged with deeper American memories of race and rape and lynching (the mobs sometimes made up of white law officers). Tawana's lie claimed the prestige of tragic precedent and a legacy of sacred indignation. Tawana became indistinguishable in moral terms from, say, Emmett Till, the Chicago 14-year-old lynched in 1955 in Tallahatchie County, Miss., for daring to get fresh with a white woman...
...most Americans thalidomide is synonymous with tragic birth defects. But last week the FDA made headlines by approving the drug--for leprosy victims. Research suggests that thalidomide may later be helpful in treating other conditions, including tumors and AIDS-related illnesses, but these uses remain unapproved. The drug is still extremely dangerous for pregnancies, and patients will be carefully monitored...
Given the story's medical ground rules, tragic, unrequited love is the only love Blatchley can reasonably hope for, and he makes the most of it, courting the plain but gentle Nuala solely from his neck up, in thoughts and dreams and the occasional rounding of his lips. Drifting among blackouts, hallucinations and long days of morphine-muted delirium, he stitches together a history for Nuala as an archetypal carefree country girl, all windblown red hair and stylized pink cheeks. But since Blatchley is also an intellectual (his police beat was forged and stolen art), he isn't satisfied with...
...hand was containing out-of-control costs and covering the 36 million Americans who lacked health insurance. That number has grown in the past four years. But with fewer people worried about losing their jobs and the health benefits that go along with them, the uninsured and their tragic stories barely figure in the debate. Instead, politicians have taken up the cause of the Great Insured Majority against the employers, HMOs and insurance companies that would deny them proper care. "How can you let some person with the mentality of an accountant...make the decision?" Clinton has demanded...