Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet Union. In my opinion, these are not the last conflicts. Other conflicts are to be expected, and they will be on a larger scale. But I think the law of necessity will work; Abkhasians and Georgians, for example, have to live together. Even though this has been a tragic event with casualties, it will increase the responsibility of both sides...
...product of three forces: the weight of history, the legacy of communism and the democratization process itself. Unlike Britain and France, which have secure identities and stable boundaries, the nation-states of Eastern Europe are the relatively recent product of empire -- Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman or Russian. They have had tragic histories of lost freedom, submerged identities and shifting boundaries. Add to this the legacy of communism, which in the former Soviet bloc acted as a refrigerator, freezing all political, social and cultural evolutions, leaving pre- and post-World War II problems unresolved, accumulating economic and spiritual frustrations. The worst example...
Nowhere is the damage wrought by racial discrimination and isolation more evident and painful than in the schools. "In a way, the most tragic years for African-American kids are the years from fourth to sixth grade," says Kozol. "Those are the years in which the dream dies. In many ways, poor white kids and poor black kids suffer equally. But in the inner-city schools, where the injury of caste is compounded by the injuries of race, the misery is of a different order...
PARENTS USED TO HAVE TO WAIT until babies were born to find out if they had tragic birth defects. Then came two breakthrough fetal tests: amniocentesis, which can identify abnormalities in the 15th week of pregnancy; and chorionic villus sampling, which can be performed as early as the tenth week. Neither procedure is without risk, however, and when either succeeds in pinpointing a genetic defect, it forces would-be parents to make a terrible choice: Do they raise a child who might have a serious congenital affliction? Or do they suffer the torment and pain that accompanies an abortion...
...cheerfully violent, frequently in slow motion. Muskets crack and tomahawks fly. Dripping scalps are brandished. The music swells. A heart is cut out. Two hundred soldiers and 200 Indians writhe together in mortal combat, all on the screen at the same time, By the time that Uncas meets his tragic end, mortally wounded and flung from a high cliff, who cares? Besides, a nice little jig is playing while it happens...