Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five-and-dime, and the world is as crowded with them as it is with stray pets, worn tires, and missing keys." He is a saint maybe, like one of the exceedingly normal yet extraordinarily courageous and strong characters who populate the works of Anne Tyler; a modern day tragic hero whose Achilles' heel and fatal flaw is a penchant for liquor. Lou Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from his lackadaisical work as a publicist. Hex is the only other person who can interpret his mother's "syllabic puree;" he knows that Lou has stuck...
...what troubled Barbara Prentice the most was the possibility that UMass-Amherst police missed important evidence because they were more concerned about the university's image than about her son's tragic death...
...have traditionally seen Shugden as personal protector may now feel read out of the faith. Addressing charges of shunning, threats and even physical abuse against Shugdenites, American Dalai Lama adviser John Ackerly admits that "there have been cases of harassment," all condemned by the High Lama. The most tragic sign that the dispute has spun out of control was the apparently ritual 1997 stabbing of three high anti-Shugden monks in the exile capital of Dharamsala, India. The killers escaped, but Indian police traced a call they made to a pro-Shugden organization in New Delhi...
...thriller: Vice-corporal Cedric Tornay, a 23-year-old noncommissioned officer in the pope's elite Swiss guard, disgruntled by lack of recognition, reprimanded for staying out all night, shot his new commander and the commander's wife before turning the gun on himself. But that was the tragic reality that Vatican City woke up to Tuesday morning, when the sleepy center of Roman Catholicism was rocked by its first murders in 150 years. "It was a fit of madness in a person with very peculiar psychological characteristics," explained Joaquin Navarro-Valls, a papal spokesman...
...found the photo of young Golden as repellent as the videotapes of young JonBenet Ramsey strutting around and made up to look like a seductive adult. With both children, the outcome was tragic. When will we allow our children to be children? KATHLEEN D. ZAWACKI Yardley...