Word: tragic
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...Bristol Motor Speedway. The car is a bit wider, a bit taller, a bit less long and actually a bit slower than the current models. Most important, the Car of Tomorrow is designed to be a whole lot safer than the car of today. The project was given tragic impetus during a nine-month period in 2000-2001 when a number of drivers were killed, including Petty's son Adam, then 19, and the legendary Dale Earnhardt, who ran into a wall at Daytona. Even so, the idea of developing the model was not exactly championed by the drivers...
...leave aside for a moment the political stakes. What strikes me reading the bill is that this is a case where the Purists have carried the day. If a fetus is an innocent life deserving the full protection of the law, then the circumstances of conception, no matter how tragic, are irrelevant. Punish the rapist, they say, not the baby. Even the bill?s opponents agree that it has a kind of logical integrity. If this effort succeeds it will redraw the battle lines in the 30 Years Abortion...
...west seems to have finally acknowledged the growing influence of India and China as major global economic powers. Both nations, however, are marred by real problems that need solutions. There are tragic undercurrents caused mainly by lack of infrastructure, rampant corruption and the absence of realistic programs to combat poverty in urban and rural areas. Unless these two future superpowers make efforts to bring all social classes under their umbrella of success, we cannot be euphoric over their one-dimensional growth. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...India or the U.S., will be what leads the way. Richard Gordon Peebles, Scotland The West seems finally to have acknowledged the growing influence of India and China as major global economic powers. Both nations, however, are marred by real problems that need solutions. There are tragic undercurrents caused mainly by lack of infrastructure, rampant corruption and the absence of realistic programs to combat poverty in urban and rural areas. Unless these two future superpowers make efforts to bring all social classes under their umbrella of success, we cannot be euphoric over their one-dimensional growth. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad...
...politics and media with the occasional dollop of Harvard news. But I found the story still interested me. It’s a fascinating story—it’s historic, it’s dramatic. I’m not sure it quite reaches the level of tragic, but there are tragic elements in it. Above all—and this will get lost in the left versus right sniping you’ll see in the next few weeks—it’s an important story. Ultimately a lot of the issues with Larry were...