Word: tragic
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...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...
...life embodies a severely warped version of the American dream: an extremely light-skinned black man passing himself off as a Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young Silk, torn between the pulls of family and future. Hopkins is almost convincing as the tragic hero Coleman Silk, Nicole Kidman less so as the battered Faunia—the cleaning woman who pulls Silk out of his shell. Much like Silk himself, the film is a prisoner of its own ambitions; it falls victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel...
Important measures can and should be undertaken to protect this country. Initiatives such as SEVIS, however, are little more than extreme reactions to tragic events. International students are a valuable asset and often end up staying in their host country, thus employing their talents to the gain of their new home. The HLS student changed his plans for the future, choosing to reside in England. If we allow the recent problems in international politics to give free rein to those who would close this country off to all foreigners, we will take a path that can only lead to loss...
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...
Already the fires of October are being called one of the worst natural disasters in California history. And yet, despite their ferocity, the infernos that enveloped more than 750,000 acres, killed 20 people and destroyed nearly 3,000 houses were in many ways disasters foretold, the tragic but predictable consequences of the push of people and dwellings into forests and brushlands designed by nature to burn...