Word: tragical
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...Harvard women's volleyball team (7-14, 4-1 Ivy), outlasted Ivy frontrunner Dartmouth (14-3, 4-1) 15-6, 15-11, 10-15, 14-16, 15-12, despite setting itself up for a fall of tragic proportions...
...Rapoport. She is referring, of course, to the phenomenal success of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine) by Mary Pipher and the many copycat books that followed. Pipher, a clinical psychologist in Lincoln, Neb., argues that many girls lose themselves in adolescence, just as Ophelia, the tragic figure in Shakespeare's Hamlet, did. Popularizing the work of Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, Pipher urges the parents of adolescent girls to help their daughters avoid emotional traps like depression, eating disorders and suicide attempts. The book spent nearly three years on the best-seller lists, and continues...
Among the tragic consequences of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination was that he was cut down before he could write his own assessment of his life. Now, 30 years after the murder, his family is attempting to fill the gap with the assistance of Clayborne Carson Jr., a Stanford University professor who edited King's papers. Sadly, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Warner Books, 400 pages, $25) does not deliver the sort of revealing self-examination that characterizes such powerful memoirs as the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or The Autobiography of Malcolm...
...Harvard community and American journalism suffered a tragic loss Tuesday when Christopher J. Ceorges '87 died at Lenox Hospital in New York City as a result of complications related to lupus, a disease he battled for much of his life...
...situation in Israel were not so tragic it would be comic, to the extent that the same characters constantly prove themselves incapable of making any progress. Hopefully, as talks conclude this week, tragedy will no longer be the order...