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Nearly 1,000 passengers and crew members fled in lifeboats and at least one passenger died as the infamous passenger ship Achille Lauro's tragic story closed today. The ship drew world attention in 1985 when it was captured by Palestinian hijackers who ultimately killed a wheelchair-bound New York man by throwing him overboard. The 23,478 ton ship -- owned by a Genoa-based Starlauro -- burned and seemed likely to sink 130 miles south of the Horn of Africa as passengers and crew boarded merchant ships on the scene for the rescue.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
Lezama maintains that Smith should not be judged on the basis of her social role as mother, and that the complexities of contemporary life for women somehow explain "why she was desperately looking for a way out." Lezama makes the inductive error of tracing one tragic act to a larger political condition...
...post office facility in Newry, 30 miles south of Belfast. The murder of a postal clerk was the first since the I.R.A. announced a cease-fire in September. It caused the Irish government to rescind plans for the early release of I.R.A. prisoners. Sinn Fein said the killing was tragic and wrong...
What is profoundly disturbing about "Hoop Dreams" is not that its two protagonists will probably fall short of NBA stardom. Rather, it is the particular kind of failure--intractable, cyclical and tragic--that makes the film pathetic...
...indication that they have come to terms with the problems of their childhood and will choose to make things different in their own homes. On the contrary, it is easy to see how the sons will become the fathers in the next generation's hoop dreams. The tragic cycle of inner-city life will be repeated once again...