Word: tragic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...after all, Carroll, the eldest cop in the car, who was the first to approach Diallo, the first to falsely identify the victim's wallet as a gun, and, arguably, the force that precipitated the barrage of bullets that killed Diallo. A tragic mistake was made, and the political storm surrounding this trial virtually guarantees that someone will have to shoulder the penalty. Sobbing on the stand Monday, Carroll was the embodiment of anguish - and, the prosecution may contend, of the bulk of the guilt...
...Lebanon is Syria, the true occupying power in Lebanon. Indeed, after the recent Hizbullah terrorist attacks, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright called Syria and requested that they put a stop to the terrorism in Lebanon. We agree with the SAS that the current state of affairs is tragic. We call upon them to join us in protest against Syria and the terrorist organizations within Lebanon that it supports, according to the Feb. 14 edition of the New York Times. The Syrians are hurting the interests of both the Israelis and Lebanese civilians, all of whom desperately want...
...Society of Arab Students, for a speedy end to this bloody conflict and for a broad-based and permanent, just peace in the Middle East. Our hearts are with the wounded and the families, Israeli and Lebanese, who have lost their loved ones over the course of this tragic conflict...
...supplanted by our dear friend Homo sapiens, followed just tens of millennia later by the first European settlements on Crete. Then before you knew it, the Minoans, Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Vikings, Holy Romans, and Ottomans had all come and gone, and pretty soon (following countless tragic wars, a few really long boat trips, and a few pinnacles of Western civilization), the year 2000 rolled around, and you decided that it was high time that you went and saw it all for yourself. So you loaded some film in the old camera, packed a change of socks...
...stumbling block in the defense's case. Each of the 41 bullets, prosecutors point out, had to be squeezed out of the police weapons with a separate motion, and not, as has been implied, with a single machine gun-like squeeze. "The defense needs to emphasize the tragic mistake aspect of the murder," says White. "The worst mistake they can make is to blame Diallo, or to suggest he asked for what happened...