Governments are floundering, pirouetting on policy in response to front-page pictures of tragedy on a Turkish beach, engaging in a blame game which, coming on top of five years of division over Greece and the euro, is exposing major divisions.
On June 19 , 1996 Sonenshine wrote a piece for Newsday titled "Can U.S. Halt New Africa Tragedy?" In the past, she said, U.S. presidents did not take action in Africa unless television brought horrendous pictures of tragedy into American homes.
The accounts from Syria and neighboring countries gave readers an up-close picture of tragedy that seems without end.
But new ways of analyzing information about the victims keep giving us new pictures of the tragedy that unfolded last Sept. 11, new ways to understand its effects.
At one point, the children were guided through an exercise in which they drew a "film strip" of their stories, sticking together, in chronological order, hand-drawn pictures of their tragedy.
Long after pictures of the tragedy in Haiti have faded from the front pages of our newspapers and evening news reports, Haitian communities across the U.S. as well as in Haiti itself will require continued aid to overcome the long-term impact of such a devastating event.
Mr. Barron should meet with representatives of local human rights groups, of the Law Society and of the opposition in order to gain a real picture of the tragedy Mr. Mugabe has created.
Her photograph of the class has become the iconic picture of the tragedy — the next day, it ran on the front page of the Times — but, at the time, Hicks was thinking that fourteen sets of parents would see the photograph on the Bee's Web site and know that their children were safe.
"Yet, with large numbers it is often possible to lose the full picture of human tragedy, the human face, for behind every number, every statistic, there is a story to be heard". Even if the 20,000 that the United States eventually agreed to take was only a small fraction of the total, the speed of the operation was remarkable.
Increasingly, we are getting a more complete picture of the tragedy that is suicides among active and retired service members.
It invites you to make up a story about how this transformation occurred, to picture some strange life of tragedy and transcendence.
