Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rally began with a description of Saturday's tragic events delivered by Rachel B. Tiven '96-'97. Standing next to a student who held an Israeli flag. Tiven recounted the details of Rabin's assassination...
...members of the Society of Arab Students would like to express their deep regret for the loss of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. We hope that the peace process which he helped initiate will not be impeded by this tragic incident, and we hope that his legacy will be one of peace and not of war. --Muna Sukhnan President, Harvard Radcliffe Society of Arab Students
Yesterday's assassination of the Israeli prime minister by a right-wing, anti-Palestinian Jew was a tragic and sorrowful act. In an age where Jews and Palestinians, Bosnians and Serbs, and British and Irish have all made serious attempts to reconcile their differences to create peace, such a senseless deed comes as a shock and a travesty...
Then there were the savagely named Braves and Indians. Cleveland won 100 games, which is astonishing in a season with only 144. What made their record even more remarkable is that during spring training in 1993, the team had to regroup after the tragic deaths of two of their pitchers, Tim Crews and Steve Olin, in a boating accident. So when the Indians raised the division championship flag after clinching the American League Central on Sept. 8, manager Mike Hargrove made sure they played the Garth Brooks song The Dance--the same song played at the memorial service...
...frightening to consider that, so soon after the tragic bombing of the Murray Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the demolition of the World Trade Center in New York, so many Americans have already forgotten how devastating and emotionally traumatic terrorism can be. Inviting Arafat to address members of the Harvard Community under the trumped-up title of "President of the Palestinian National Authority" is tantamount to making light of the deaths of Americans, Israelis and others who have died at the hands of the PLO in the not-too-distant past...