Word: tragic
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...thoughts are with all parties affected by this tragic accident,” Judy Chong, a spokeswoman for Shaw’s, told the Herald...
...Harvard College Library. Admission will not be possible without an ID or this pass, even if a student has a class inside Lamont, Brainard added. Brainard said that the primary goal of this change is the protection of students. “The policy is necessary in light of tragic events at universities across the country,” she said, referring to the campus shootings at Virginia Tech and other colleges in the past year. “It’s another layer of security so we know that people in the building are members of the Harvard...
...Apart from a handful of Harvard students who have gathered to honor our veterans and to commemorate the dead, the student body has in general managed to ignore these tragic developments. But the war will eventually affect the life of every student, because it is this current generation that will end up paying the $3 trillion bill...
...example of Lebanon. Is the presence of Hizballah really a terrorist one? Who then killed Imad Mughniyah [the reputed master-terrorist and Hizballah collaborator who was assassinated in a bomb attack in Syria in February]? What Israel is doing Gaza... is there any act of state terrorism more tragic than that? But I think in fact that Iran and the U.S. have many common interests in the region; our position in the region should not be one of opposition, but friendly competition with other powers...
...argue. It's almost like there's an unspoken analogy at work between Gandhi's nonviolence and Baker's noncommentary: Baker declines to take up arms in support of his thesis, as if to do so would be to commit rhetorical violence against the facts. But facts, even tragic ones, require context and interpretation. They don't speak for themselves. That's why we need historians...