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...genetic females in the crowd seem equally in tune with Monroe’s iconic status. “She’s a larger than life figure who’s very tragic,” says Dawn Kipphut, a Cambridge movie buff who works in customer service. “I mean, she died alone. And she had to change a lot about herself to become the icon...
Hunt’s inability to travel seems like a tragic psychological twist of fate...
...unit, says the official Army report on what happened, "found itself in a desperate situation due to a navigational error caused by the combined effects of the operational pace, acute fatigue, isolation and the harsh environmental conditions. The tragic results of this error placed the soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company in a torrent of fire." During the roughly 1 1/2-hour-long fire fight that they endured, the report concludes, "every soldier performed honorably and did his or her duty...
Doctors described Terri Schiavo, 39, as being in a vegetative state, but she was spared from entering the next world by the intervention of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Nobody involved in this tragic case should presume the moral high ground. Close family members think if there is life, there is hope. Others, however, see a denial of the right to die with dignity. Bush family members are strong on the right to life. But that does not mean they or the Bush Administration thinks the state should pay for a national health-care program. That is anathema to these "compassionate...
Khodorkovsky’s likely imprisonment is not just a tragic prospect for Russia’s wealthiest individual. Russia will lose its most trusted entrepreneur, which will make foreign investors more cautious. It has taken years for the Russian economy to buck the perception of dysfunctional cronyism; the latest ham-fisted attack on the most prominent Russian industrialist—and its seizure of 44 percent of Yukos—only makes the business climate more unpredictable and unattractive. Indeed, capital has once again started to flee from the country, and it now looks as though an anticipated merger...