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...That image of Lincoln is historically accurate, according to Joshua Wolf Shenk ’93, author of the new book “Lincoln’s Melancholy.” But Shenk argues that, instead of being a tragic flaw, the Great Emancipator’s depression was a key source of his success...
...Carmen—outraged and hysterical after being abandoned—turns to the arms of Escamillo, a famed bullfighter. When Don José learns of this affair, he is thrown into a jealous madness that comes to a head in the opera’s tragic final scene. The last acts of “Carmen” have the potential for gut-wrenching intensity. Without a credible foundation for Carmen and Don José’s attraction, this production was unable to reach those emotional heights. Still, the scenes that belonged to Baldwin alone were charged...
...suicide attacks on the Indonesian resort island of Bali were a horrible echo of the far more destructive BALI BOMBINGS of Oct. 12, 2002. The blasts, which killed 202 people, were the worst terrorist attack in the country's history; for the idyllic island, they were also a tragic loss of innocence...
...tragic part of the human condition but is sometimes necessary to combat such evils as slavery, fascism and, yes, terrorism. The Iraq war, however, will achieve no noble purpose. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and democracy will exist in Iraq for about as long as U.S. troops are there. Many more Saddams are waiting to rise to the top in Iraq. We were naive to think we could easily paste a veneer of Jeffersonian democracy on a land where tribal allegiances date back centuries. By almost any measure, this war is a tragic blunder. Yet to withdraw...
What’s old about the book is its timeless message, one that we hear over and over and somehow manage to forget every time. Having read countless tragic stories of other wars, we know what to expect. War is terrible, and those who romanticize it insult those who give their lives...