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The fact that boomers and Gen-Xers will get a worse deal from Social Security than their parents--mainly because part of the money they put into the system was, in effect, transferred to their parents--doesn't seem horribly tragic to me.
The tragic context of the violence sensitizes us to its horror and makes us revile it.
Kuwait's Communications, Electricity, and Water Minister Jassem Al-Oun was reported Thursday in the Kuwait Times as predicting that "a military confrontation [with Iraq] will ultimately take place which will have devastating effects in the region and tragic consequences for the Iraqi people."
That the emotional climax of Kubrick's last movie is Tom Cruise screwing up his face and feigning a tragic awareness while a piano goes plink ...
"There was a tragic element to his life story," waxed the New York Times . Cisneros is the second ex-Clinton Cabinet officer to be indicted--following Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy--and would have been the third, according to pundits, if Commerce Secretary Ron Brown hadn't died in a plane crash.