11.   Can there be reconciliation after such a terrible event?

12.   Clearly, the embassy bombing was a terrible event.

13.   Even terrible events were recounted in uplifting tones.

14.   Fantasies of evil and dreams of victory over its agents are increasing in voltage, needless to say, in response to the terrible events of recent times.

15.   For Americans, these terrible events are epoch-making, changing the landscape of geopolitics as indelibly as they have defaced the skyline of Manhattan.

16.   Holocaust dramatizations are almost always vexatious, courting the danger of trivialization by forcing terrible events to conform to the demands of narrative.

17.   In the week and a half since the terrible events of that day, the economy seems to have taken a rest stop.

18.   It begins, of course, with the fullest investigation of these terrible events.

19.   It is also a natural human reaction to a terrible event to wonder whether something could have been done to prevent it or at least minimize its effect.

20.   It would be tragic to teach them that the trauma of a terrible event means they cannot have fun anymore.