Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell my kids I was not where I was supposed to be--curled up with Shakespeare and Sophocles, studying for a morning exam on tragic drama. I'll tell them I was not where I was expected to be, either--huddled around the television set, watching Ted Koppel count down the minutes to the United Nations deadline for Iraq's pullout from Kuwait...
...Western powers attack an ambitious Arab dictator. The Soviet Union, threatened by revolution within its empire, takes advantage of the Middle East crisis to crush the rebellion. No, that was not just last week's news in the Persian Gulf and the Baltics; it was what happened during one tragic week late...
Talk About Tragic--Intersession plans were dashed and Harvard students were devastated after the exam for Professor Houchang E. Chehabi's course, Historical Studies A-36, "The Rise and decline of international Communism," was cancelled because the University bureaucracy lost the test. "I studied for the exam all last night," said Kelly A Bowdren '94, "and now I have this hanging over my head when I go to Washington D.C. during intersession to interview for summer jobs...
PRESIDENT Bush has made a tragic mistake. Now that he has initiated hostilities against Iraq, the world will never know whether economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure could have prevented a devastating conflict in the Persian Gulf. The world will never know whether war was a necessary response to Saddam Hussein's aggression...
...BUSH'S tragic mistake took place in the early fall, not this week. By narrowly focusing on a specific position (the with-drawal of Iraq from Kuwait) and not clearly enunciating United States interests (stability in the Gulf, elimination of the biological, chemical and nuclear threat), Bush forced Saddam into a corner...