While the facts are still developing, this tragedy exposes the true toll of war's hidden injuries -- not only on our nation's service members, but on the families and caregivers who tend to them.
With poor policing abilities, corruption and little technical capacity in the developing world, tragedies like the one in Lahore are bound to happen again.
On the one hand, some playwrights developed a tragedy rigidly based in form upon Neoclassical notions of Aristotelian unity, controlled by verse that is more regular than that of the Spanish or English dramatists.
To mitigate the impact of such tragedies, developing adequate crowd management strategies is essential.
Maternal mortality, a crisis essentially of the poor in 21st century [1], and a neglected tragedy of developing countries [2], reflects one of the shameful failures of human development [3].
One of the novel's many pleasures is just going along: putting yourself fully in the hands of the story and its author, being drawn in, gradually immersed, making the connections, appreciating those seeds as they bloom into the tale's developing complexity, danger and tragedy.
This is where the tragedy developed.
Packer's second novel examines the bonds of female friendship and how the connections formed by a childhood tragedy develop with age.
Each is based on a situation that could have been developed into major tragedy had Shakespeare followed out its logic as he had done with earlier plays.
Since his death, in 1966, Thompson has been consigned to the role of "flipped-out black junkie genius"; but the romance that developed around the tragedy of his life has prevented his work from being seen for what it is.
