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That statement, from an interview published just last week, is now tragic, and piercingly sour. In trying to be a woman, she remained a target. Because of the hungry economics of voyeurism, her sons have no mother. At 36, of fame and fatal injuries, Lady Diana Spencer is dead...
...what can you expect from the culture that brought us Hercules? In the myth Hercules was a tragic figure: born with the strength to strangle serpents in his cradle, but with far less than the normal quotient of self-control, he kills his wife Megara and their three children in an inexplicable fit of rage and is condemned to perform his superhuman feats as a way of atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra...
...goes well, our grandchildren will encounter the floodplains of Mars in a third-grade geography lesson, and maybe even find them a little dull. But cuteness short-circuits the whole process of learning and discovery. When we turn the Martian terrain into a comic strip, when we reduce a tragic hero to an action figure, we are making things seem tame and familiar before we even know what they are. We are insisting, in our pathetic provincialism, that there is nothing out there--either in the mythic past or the distant reaches of space--that can't be labeled, depicted...
British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: "I am horrified at this devastating bomb attack, and deeply regret the loss of life," etc., etc. "This tragic incident reinforces the urgency of a return to dialogue and negotiation...
...early incident was certainly tragic, but everyone's trying to work despite these awful circumstances," Dimond said...