Word: tragic
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...town that claims the Cubs has got to love irony, and the progression up from farce toward what we can but hope is a cleansing, if tragic, resolution. And the Lord knows we're working toward...
...grown in number but not much in effectiveness. Last week a federal study found that drug users among children ages 12 to 17 have more than doubled in four years, to nearly 11%. If nothing is done, that percentage is likely to double again in five years. "It's tragic but not surprising," says Rosalind Branningan of Drug Strategies, an antidrug research group. "In many schools, putting up posters is the sum of drug education. The few programs that do work use a host of proven methods and involve rigorous, normative teaching," which means getting kids to realize that most...
...images, a sense that we are seeing some of the last things on earth that have not been subsumed by 20th century Western culture. Jason Clay, co-founder of Cultural Survival Quarterly, uses the phrase salvage ethnography to describe the race to capture these traditions. "It would be tragic," he says, "if work like that of Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher turned out to be their final documentation...
...that case he must love Chechnya. Expecting a quick victory, Yeltsin sent the Russian army in 20 months ago to put down the Chechens' independence drive; it has been a tragic mess ever since. Russian artillery and bombs have blasted cities and villages to rubble, but the ill-trained Russian infantry has proved no match for the fast-moving, highly motivated Chechens. In a ferocious surprise attack begun Aug. 6 to embarrass Yeltsin at his inaugural, Chechen fighters succeeded in reversing the course of the war, driving thousands of Russian troops--and desperate civilians--out of Grozny, inflicting hundreds...
...most influential countries in the world and a global player in international politics, America is not only vulnerable, but a first-class target for extremist forces. Before the bomb attacks on the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City, the U.S. had been spared. I deeply hope the latest tragic episodes will not be a turning point to bringing more terror. THOMAS LEIB Bayreuth, Germany...