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Anyone who was aware of the tragedy is familiar with the one profile picture of Matthew Shepard.
This tragedy, if it was to be made into a movie at all, and I wish it hadn't...deserved a much better representation than this.
Your government lied about the entire 9/11 tragedy.
The actors were all so drab and painfully awful it made this movie a tragedy.
The tragedy finally turned into a joke.
It follows a formula we've seen before of inspiration and tragedy, all just to get a few cheap tugs at the heartstrings.
Go back into your caves and let those who still have the capacity to feel relish in the tragedy portrayed by an up-and coming actress.
Children forced to live in conflict zones are already suffering; when violence prevents them from learning, they suffer a double tragedy.
In this Clinton is encouraged by a Europe shown incapable of solving by itself the Bosnian tragedy.
And they should be pursuing immigration reform to overhaul a system that penalizes talent, encourages malfeasance, and, as illustrated by the thousands of migrants who have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years while trying to reach Europe, often leads to human tragedy.
In the 21st century, Europe must reconsider the value of both principles - solidarity and subsidiarity - if it is to attain integration's historic goal: the freedom and well being needed to overcome the differences and political divisions that incited tragedy in the 20th century.
And this is the real tragedy of “Climategate.”
The Waste of WarNEW YORK – Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”
Yet when we look around nowadays, we can’t help but wonder whether tragedy will be followed by yet more tragedy.
War in the industrial age is tragedy, disaster, and devastation; it solves no political problems.
On this hundredth anniversary of one of the greatest disasters of human history, let us follow tragedy not by farce or more tragedy, but by the triumph of cooperation and decency.
It is simplistic to portray the Venezuelan tragedy as an apocryphal tale of what happens when a country is taken over by left-wing populists.
This would be a tragedy.
But, while the rejection of humanitarian military intervention had an element of tragedy in that case, Germany’s behavior today is pure farce.
Moreover, just when we were beginning to think that the Iraqi tragedy had made the limits of unilateralism and preemptive military strategies clear to all, the Bush administration encourages Israel’s military action – this time against a country that has painfully been attempting to consolidate democratic reform and to reafirm its sovereignty in relation to Syria .
Even the Russian clichés – tragedy stemming from overweening power, vodka, swearing, shooting, and shouting – only strengthen the film's extraordinary depiction of the local effects of distant and devastating forces.
The sad truth is that, in Russia, history does indeed repeat itself, but, in a twist on Karl Marx’s dictum, as tragedy and farce at once.
The real tragedy is that the best solution to poverty would not cost a thing.
We must not wait until tragedy strikes to do something about it.
And if the Conservative tragedy is party activists obsessed with Europe, Labour’s tragedy is the opposite: no one asks about Europe at selection meetings.
The tragedy is that much of this deforestation has been entirely unnecessary from the standpoint of economic development.
It would be a tragedy if those who still want to control the media win by taking their tactics underground, behind closed doors.
The tragedy of our times is that just when bolder cooperation is needed to address the inequities of hyper-globalization, the drums of “free trade” have drowned out the voices of those calling for a restoration of trust, fairness, and justice in the system.
Greece Must ExitNEW YORK – The Greek euro tragedy is reaching its final act: it is clear that either this year or next, Greece is highly likely to default on its debt and exit the eurozone.
Those at the forefront of the fight against Ebola – including the United Nations Development Program – have been mobilizing communities against the disease, supporting medical teams, and helping survivors and families of the infected cope with the tragedy.
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