Word: tragic
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...increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. If the proposed warning labels prompt closer monitoring of children who are being treated for depression and dampen the cavalier way some health-care providers have been handing out these drugs, so much the better. But it would be tragic if the recommended changes amount to an informal...
...witty 1999 collection of short stories was Who's Irish??but the theme, as it has always been in Jen's work, was "who's American?" It's never been a question with a simple answer. Her Chinese immigrants and their children are neither apple-pie success stories nor tragic victims of American assimilation. In Jen's world Chinese parents open up a restaurant, make money, move to the suburbs, argue in Shanghainese, then find their youngest daughter wants to be Jewish and ditch Mandarin lessons for Hebrew. There's no melting pot to be seen in this immigrant experience...
...only did Gilmore have to turn around a team that had just finished an abysmal 1-11 season, but he was coming into a program where the onfield losses were deepened by the loss of a beloved coach to tragic illness and eventually death...
Renan thought that Litinsky’s self-confidence would be his tragic flaw and ultimately lead to his dismissal. “He won’t win because he’s too cocky,” Renan said...
...overshadowed the rapid comeback of a second, nearly-as-deadly plague--malaria. The latest figures suggest that malaria sickened 300 million people last year and killed 3 million--most of them under age 5. (AIDS last year killed just over 3 million people.) What makes the malaria deaths particularly tragic is that malaria, unlike AIDS, can be cured...