Articles Tagged with #tragedy
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Spoofs & Satire
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Wed
To wed or not to wed? There’s the rub. Revisiting Tom Stoppard’s classic in the era of gay marriage.
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Gallery
A Kiss Before You Go
Excerpts from an illustrated memoir of love and mourning after an artist loses his wife to a tragic accident.
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A Pennsylvania Story
When the Town Stops Burning
For 50 years, a fire has been raging in mining tunnels beneath Centralia, Pa. With the town mostly evacuated long ago, what’s left? Mostly journalists and other outsiders looking in.
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Letters From Austin
Inferno
As Texas burns, prayers are answered in the form of a feathered-haired governor. It’s a good thing he already knows how to beat down the devil.
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Opinions
Rising Up at Ground Zero
Construction continues at the new World Trade Center—as does criticism of the approved designs. But a look deep inside the new structure shows the progress so far has proven to be in exactly the right direction.
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This American Tragedy
Going Postal Goes Abroad
Twenty-five years after Patrick Sherrill killed 14 employees at an Oklahoma post office—inspiring the term “going postal”—a massacre unfolded in Norway. A deadly America export, both phrase and phenomenon, comes under scrutiny.
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Personal Essays
Caught Telling Fiction
The gap between literary and historical fiction is mostly a marketing ploy—at least until a novelist meets a survivor of her story’s plot.
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Letters From Haiti
Beyond Gadougadou
Six months after an earthquake shook Haiti to its core, our woman in Haiti seeks out what lies beneath the rubble and finds a history of violence and striking beauty.
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New York, New York
Remember the General Slocum
The morning of June 15, 1904, promised a day of fun for more than a thousand residents of the Lower East Side. In an instant, it turned deadly.
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Profiles
Careful, the Doors Are Closing
Last month’s suicide attacks in Moscow shocked anyone who studied Dzhanet Abdullayeva’s photo. But it wasn’t her baby face or cold blood that impressed our writer. It was her choice of metro stations.
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Op-Ed
God Hearts Haiti
Gauging the invasion of the well-intentioned a week after the devastation of Port-au-Prince and wondering what it really means for Haiti’s future.
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Letters From Mumbai
Not Just Jazz by the Bay
Two months since the Mumbai attacks, the city is numb and rumors breed wildly. Our reporter in India’s financial capital reports on house parties, police lines, and the threatened market for roti rolls.