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...words of Professor Amnon Rubinstein, a respected parliamentarian identified with the Israeli Left, in the Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2009: “The suffering of the people of Gaza is…[a] tragedy??[that] could disappear overnight if Gaza was governed by leaders who prefer life and peace to death...
...against a career in professional football to take up what had become the family business. He won his brother John’s vacated Senate seat in 1962—one he has held ever since. Soon thereafter, the freshman senator and his family were subjected to tragedy after tragedy??Ted’s own steadfastness a reassurance to a nation shaken by the assassinations of his brothers John and Robert. Indeed, Kennedy has come to be defined by his perseverance. Through scandal, personal loss and political disappointment, he had become unmistakably the most prominent American voice...
...main adversary is former Ontario premier Bob Rae, who also unsuccessfully sought leadership of the party in 2006. According to Cohen, the two are “lifelong friends.” “[It’s] a Shakespearean rivalry, or the rivalry of a Greek tragedy??I’m not sure which,” said Cohen. But recent events make this contest a very different race from the one in 2006. In last month’s election, which resulted in the reelection of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Liberal Party...
...when he realizes Morton’s character will never love him like she loves Caden. But by then, Caden is so swallowed up by his role as the director that he effectively barks dramatic criticism at Noonan’s corpse. It’s more than a tragedy??it’s a tragedy in tragic pursuit of itself. Every layer of the film is so kaleidoscopic and thoroughly disorienting as to constitute an experience totally unlike any other in contemporary mainstream American film.But there’s more at work in “Synecdoche?...
...resilience and vulnerability of the human spirit. The story of jockey Gabriel Saez, who led Eight Belles across the finish line before the grey thoroughbred collapsed and broke her two front ankles, acted as a metaphor for the play. It was a moment of simultaneous triumph and tragedy??and, as with the play, it was the tragedy that resonated. —Staff writer Ama R. Francis can be reached at afrancis@fas.harvard.edu