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...against any future proceedings. While Waddle spoke, his lawyer, Charles Gittins, sat despondently with his head in his hands, pulling at his hair. Waddle was on his own, and he knew it. Conceding that "mistakes were made," Waddle said, "as commanding officer, I am solely responsible for this truly tragic accident, and for the rest of my life I will have to live with the horrible consequences...
...what is good for us individually is good for everyone else as well - to mistake what is in our own best interest for the common good. We see this every day in ways large and small. In the case of someone like Timothy McVeigh, the consequences are monstrous and tragic; in the case of campaign finance reform, they often become farcical...
Roger Rosenblatt's piece on Bill Clinton, drawing a comparison between the former President and the "exciting, tragic" neighborhood of Harlem [ESSAY, March 5], captured the essence of the extraordinary personality that has kept us in a state of astonishment and bewilderment for eight years. Each day's headlines had us outraged or applauding. With each speech, Clinton won us over, but then lost us in a cloud of dust as the next unsavory episode unfolded. We never had a chance to go into restful, neutral gear. Maybe we never will. NANCY BAKER Columbus, Ohio...
...When Ehud Barak's Camp David offer of far-reaching concessions was spurned by Arafat, and violence ensued, a tragic consequence were the casualties sustained by rock-throwing youths standing among the Palestinian snipers. Arab leaders indignantly denied the suggestion that the teenagers had been deliberately placed in harm's way to gain sympathy points on the nightly news. However, their protests were muffled when USA Today reported on December 8 that Palestinian women from Tulkarm were outraged that their children were being picked up after school and brought into battle zones, and had written a protest letter to Arafat...
...small world of professional volcanologists, however, knew this to be untrue--in fact, five other people also came out of Galeras alive that day--and for years some of Williams' fellow scientists quietly criticized him both for leading the ill-fated field trip and then for capitalizing on its tragic aftermath...