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Russert's guest, columnist Mike Barnicle, heaped praise and sympathy on Ted Kennedy for having "borne so many" family tragedies.
Beijing has frequently been at the center of Chinese history, from the rise and fall of dynasties to the recent triumphs and tragedies at Tiananmen Square.
The world press ran out of new things to say about Kennedy tragedies many years ago, and all the old clichés were revived Monday in the massive coverage of the tragic loss of John F. Kennedy Jr. in a plane crash Friday--the "curse" on the family, its love of adventure, the "end of a dynasty," etc.
Corriere della Sera of Milan reported a row at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, where the authorities have imposed a ban on under-16s attending an "erotic" edited version of Shakespeare's tragedies.
Another person asked me how we can make our schools safer in the aftermath of tragedies such as Columbine.