Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragic deaths of Harvard students Trang Ho and Sinedu Tadesse on May 28 not only shocked the Cambridge community, but the entire nation...
...anonymous letter from the disturbed gay man, the flurry of suicides and the tragic murder that occurred here mark a sad increase in the number of troubled youth. Ours is the first generation in history that will, on average, be worse off than our parents'. We're growing up in a world that is significantly more complex, more uncertain and more dangerous than ever before...
...biggest shock to Carter's Harvard careercame her sophomore year after a tragic accident...
...frontal assault on the idea of America, a sort of sharp uppercut at the nerve center of our nation. At the same time, however, a 'revisionist school' has emerged, dedicated to stripping away layers of myth and metaphor and understanding the bombing in the context of a series of tragic events, foremost among them, the FBI raid on the Waco compound two years prior...
Everyone from President Clinton to Senator Dole is cashing in on the tragic events of Oklahoma. They are turning the bombing into an occasion for meditating on the (shattered) American dream, rather than an opportunity for carrying out a substantive evaluation of what happened at Oklahoma City, and why. To be sure, that is the role of the courts, and we should expect to hear much about the bombing--O.J.-style--in the years to come. Yet, the government has already proved itself incapable of simply letting the judiciary handle this matter. At the very least, the legislatures should meddle...