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Cyril’s suicide would have seemed the tragic result of too much academic pressure at Harvard were it not for a conversation Cyril had with his older brother George shortly before he committed suicide, during which Cyril told George about his homosexual relationship with Harry Dreyfus, an older man who lived in Boston...
...said understanding the moral failings and tragic consequences of the past would lead to “a future which will be better, where there will be less call for memorial churches...
...result is the end of the band’s mystique. Any dreams of a never-ending supply of new, undiscovered material from a man pop culture has labelled as a tragic young genius are trashed. There’s no point in holding out for more—it’s all gone, the Seattle basement searched and cleaned out. Don’t bother hiding your flannel shirts in your closet hoping for a Seattle Rennisance. Grunge has risen, peaked and spat out its leftovers—the mystery is over and there?...
...outskirts of Moscow stands a giant television tower, the tallest structure in Europe. It is a tragic monument—once a symbol of Soviet power over Russian journalists but now, as new antennae make it 130 feet taller, a cosmetic triumph for the increasingly controlled Russian media. But despite the strength of this symbol, serious threats challenge the freedom of the Russian press. Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, has just voted to extend new restrictions on a press that is already the subject to random raids and blackouts...
...Minnesota Coleman vs. Mondale This is the talker of the Senate races; Senator Paul Wellstone's sudden death in a plane crash just one week before the election left many Minnesotans wondering how to talk politics at such a tragic time. That hesitancy seems to have dissipated; Norm Coleman, the former St. Paul mayor, and Walter Mondale, the former Carter V.P. and presidential candidate met for a debate Monday, just hours before voters head to the polls. This one is too close to call...