The laptop-using pilots were merely texting car drivers writ large — irresponsible multitaskers who acted with potentially more tragic consequences.
The two men are reunited on the battlefield in France, where the military bureaucracy reacts as negatively to their friendship as Alex's mother did, and with more tragic consequences.
Claire Perry MP, an adviser to the prime minister on child safety issues, said she was hopeful the "responsible" changes would "prevent any more tragic consequences".
But if the fear of Baghdad and Falluja is what keeps foreign powers from saving huge numbers of Burmese from their own government's callousness, that will be one more tragic consequence of the Iraq war.
If it gets any attention in the UK, it's seen as one more tragic consequence of World War II, with British India at the time focused on the war against Japan.
But the accusations against Parker were far more serious, the consequences more tragic.
"Losing more care workers could lead to tragic consequences and could add extra pressure on an already overstretched NHS.
Some children will fail with tragic consequences, others, if we are more fortunate, with literary ones, finding humor and meaning in stories of suffering.
Though Page-Lochard manages to make his passive participation in violence compelling, "Around the Block" remains more lecture than drama about racism and its tragic consequences.
It has led to an increase in fraudulent adoption agencies, which often turn out to be little more than Web sites, and it has allowed abusive parents whose children have been removed to find them, sometimes with tragic consequences.
Even as the Bush administration continues its bizarre quest for ever more tax cuts, the states, which by law have to balance their budgets, are cutting vital social programs so deeply that tragic consequences are inevitable.
