Word: tragic
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...Rules Committee. While Senator Phil Gramm, a presidential hopeful, vowed to bring the American troops home in his first act as President, Republican leaders Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole both declined to revisit the question of American presence in Bosnia. "We can't cut and run when the first tragic thing happens," said Dole, campaigning in Iowa. The initial reports of Dugan's death said that the 38-year-old veteran died as a result of a land mine explosion in northern Bosnia. But NATO officials later confirmed that Dugan was killed when he picked up unexploded ammuntion...
...choice to not let religion matter among us, but only to each of us alone (if at all) or only between those of us who speak identical languages of faith is a tragic, and unnecessary, choice...
...This tragic event has stunned the Divinity School community, and we extend our deepest sympathy to the Dagenbach family and to Jeff's many friends," Darryl M. Smaw, director of student life at the Divinity School, said in a statement yesterday...
Engel's production works best as a record of how people reconstruct their pasts; the subject itself, which relates a lot of all-too-familiar hardship, has lost its impact. Spoon River is occasionally sad, seldom funny, but not meant to be either. Nor is it meant to be tragic. Rather the mood is elegiac in that it tries to describe the need for people to tell their stories as they would like them to be remembered. History, according to Spoon River, is constructed piecemeal and painstakingly from scraps assembled and melded together...
...have to continue for long to convince you that the Republicans' extremist agenda is tragic news for young people. The original Republican plan to balance the budget included $18 billion in cuts from student aid. Democrats agree that we must balance the budget, and it is fair to expect a wide range of people to share the burden. But cutting student aid so drastically at a time when skyrocketing tuition costs make it increasingly impossible for families to pay for their children's education is the cruelest way to make ends meet. Newt Gingrich calls what he is trying...