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There's an English writer named Alan Bennett who makes me laugh. That show Extras with Ricky Gervais makes me laugh. I like that kind of uncomfortable laughter. But when it comes to reading, I'd normally rather read something that was tragic than funny...
Spending senior week waking up at five a.m. was not exactly what I had in mind when I imagined the fun, carefree days that would be the culmination of my senior spring. Staying out until five—that was possible. Waking up at five was simply tragic...
...affairs in the unhelpful language of a moral binary—with “freedom” as its watchword—and sanctioning torture on the sly while resisting all criticism. The ongoing effort in Iraq might be a comedy of errors, were it not for its tragic consequences in death tolls and the destabilizing reverberations throughout the region...
...Islamic Republic of Pakistan, suspending that state’s constitution and silencing the dissent that arrives, organically, with true democracy. The one-time reformist hope for troubled Pakistanis—opposition leader Benazir Bhutto ’73, long in exile—came to a tragic end in January, when the former Prime Minister was assassinated on campaign in Rawalpindi. The media attention that swirled around Bhutto’s murder only contributed to the chaos, casting her as a Western light swallowed by a dark, anarchic world—in deliberate defiance of the former minister?...
...disaster delivered many brutal lessons. Some were obvious - and tragic: the club had no sprinkler or audible fire-alarm systems. But the fire also complicated official expectations for crowd behavior: in the middle of a crisis, the basic tenets of civilization actually hold. People move in groups whenever possible. They tend to look out for one another, and they maintain hierarchies. "People die the same way they live," says disaster sociologist Lee Clarke, "with friends, loved ones and colleagues, in communities...