51.   Conspiracy theories like these are ways to avoid coming to grips with tragedies whose origins are more complex and much closer to home.

52.   Demaci, asked if so much tragedy was necessary, smiled distantly, looking off toward the deep red sunset bleeding behind the trees.

53.   Even so, the Brown tragedy was, for the capital, the sum of all fears, combining duty and death, obligation and air travel.

54.   For college freshmen descending on campuses across the nation this month, the Kennedy tragedy is a plane crash, not an assassination.

55.   For Green, the tragedy was a wake-up call reminding him to take life one day at a time.

56.   For one person, there was tragedy that in some minds is still a mystery.

57.   For most of us growing up, tragedy was something that happened in faraway places.

58.   Gay was optimistic that if a similar tragedy were to strike L.A., blood would be shipped in from elsewhere.

59.   Greek tragedy is generally a tough sell outside university campuses or summer shows in outdoor amphitheaters on Mediterranean package tours.

60.   Had we done nothing, the tragedy would have been permanent, accepted and in effect condoned by the world community.