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...joint letter published last week in the Swedish daily Göteborgs-Posten, European Commission President Romano Prodi and Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson indicated a willingness to renegotiate parts of the Kyoto deal to meet U.S. objections. "It would be a tragic mistake to tear up the agreement and start over from scratch," they wrote. "We would lose time, and that would make us all losers." They also stressed that the E.U. would ratify the protocol with or without the participation of the U.S. The E.U.'s strategy - and those of the U.S. and Japan - may become...
...recovery. Burgess’ Dion is a tempestuous and embittered failure as an artist, husband and father. His sparks of energy and enthusiasm throw the brokenness of Dion’s life into a sharp relief that makes his degeneration from love-struck youth to disillusioned middle-age beautifully tragic. Meanwhile, in a lifeless-yet-mathematically-correct architecture firm, Billy’s successful career takes off even as his life remains trapped in emotional stasis. McClelland’s nervous energy more than fills Billy’s cavernous office-space, spilling over and infecting the audience with amusement...
...TIME 2000: How We Remember From Vietnam to Oklahoma City, America's new memorials help us come to terms with the tragic past. But they also reflect the complicated present
...addressed the wrong issue [SOCIETY, March 19]. Children the world over are exposed to bullying and teasing, yet they don't all seek revenge through bullets, blood and mayhem. Surely the real issue is the availability of guns. It is more than a coincidence that so many of these tragic stories involve parents who own guns. The presence of guns in the home sends the message to children that violence does indeed solve problems. LOGAN SCOTT Cape Town...
Ironically, Joe’s pathetic tale endears him to Kelly’s radio audience, and as the mockery turns to empathy, Joe’s down-to-earth goodness makes him a sort of a national champion, a tragic hero of the trailer class. His newfound fame quickly propels him into a variety of adventures, as he continues to search for his parents (oddly, Dirt never thinks to search for his sister, who has also been separated from him since he was eight...