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At the other extreme, an instance may be as large as an event, such as the Cuban missile crisis (Allison, 1971) and the swine flu vaccine (Neustadt and Fineberg, 1978), which have been the subjects of two well-known case studies, or the Challenger tragedy.
If you cast your gaze over the world today, you'd be hard pressed to find anything that is a starker example of tragedy.
It is Coppola's tragedy that he believes his best work is always ahead of him, yet keeps on making Rainmaker s.
Writing for the American Statistical Science Association's Web site (www.ASSAnine.org) last month, Charles marshaled an array of data to argue that the appropriate response to the Columbine tragedy would be for the federal government to fund a study of the gene structure of whites.
This sounds like racy stuff, but critics say the story has the "structure and implacable momentum of a stern moral fable" (Holden, the New York Times ) and is more interested in dissecting the slow tragedy of the couple's disintegrating marriage than in high jinks.