People are fascinated by wealth.

Sami died in a tragic car accident.

Oil stirs great popular fascination.

But can this infatuation possibly last?

Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic.

This time, however, it is modernity, not exoticism, that is the source of fascination.

So, does the new fascination with capital controls hold up to scrutiny?

Ethan Zuckerman Obviously, this is a tragic situation, and it actually gets worse.

However, Henry drowned in the Mississippi River when Chris was nine years old.

What was happening in Cyprus since last Monday is a real tragedy.

Each traffic accident is a terrible tragedy for the families and friends of the victims, as well as a loss to society.

The German fascination with gold is a red herring.

Haiti s recent economic history is marked by a remarkable and tragic downslide since the mid 1980 s, exacerbated by sometimes well intentioned but typically disastrously executed US diplomacy.

By the late 1980 s, however, policymakers had become re enamored with capital mobility.

This is tragic, because Germany should be driving the development of a persuasive vision for Europe s future.

The world Europe in particular has fascination and admiration for the US.

Any breakdown of peace and security, and the conflicts that ensue, have a tragic impact on children.

Tragically, the signals from former Taliban in their southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar were misread.

Although India has outstanding universities and technological institutes, the primary education system is disastrously poor.

Much more than one might expect, there is an eerie fascination in political and media circles with the political agonies being experienced by the current Australian Labor Party (ALP) government.

Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.

This is a tragic mistake, one that results from a misunderstanding of the challenges facing Africa and of America s responsibilities.

There was a brief political infatuation among some Westerners in the 1960 s with Nehru jackets and Maoist revolution, but it was brief.

I do not take an apocalyptic view of what recently happened tragic though it is for the bereaved families.

The book, written by a team of scientists, predicted disastrous shortages and mass starvation due to population pressure.

That is yet another reason why flouting inherited rules and protocols, in the name of national security, has made, and will continue to make, the terrorist threat catastrophically worse.

Of course, the other G8 leaders might be less enamored of some of Russia s other approaches to addressing budget problems.

Some countries cut ties decisively with the communist past others were less successful, a few failed catastrophically.

The obvious solution to the euro crisis would be a federal solution. But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.

The German fascination with gold is a red herring.

On the other hand, there seems to be a fascination with violent characters a sort of game that legitimizes violence in a context in which people no longer trust the government.

Barring some catastrophic change, this method of information control can be expected to continue well into the 21st century.

Sarkozy s message is that Chirac and Villepin were right in substance to oppose America s military adventure in Iraq, but that their style was disastrously wrong.

Thoughtful theologians can distinguish among psycho sexual issues in practice, however, fear of a slippery slope to calamity prevails.

Compared to other regions, the impact of the crisis in Latin America, with the exception of Haiti, has (so far) not been dramatic.

But today we must move away from fascination and gratitude and realize that the pursuit of European integration remains in the best interest of the US, which has supported it for 50 years.

Satan exists online and could make virgins, spinsters and even married women fall for the names of male bloggers, especially the righteous ones. This may result in unexpected consequences.

We have entered a dangerous period in which a huge and growing population, combined with rapid economic growth, now threatens to have a catastrophic impact on the earth s climate, biodiversity, and fresh water supplies.

In a dramatic day that saw the closure by the Egyptian government of the Al Jazeera TV network's bureau in Cairo, the rapidly changing situation on the ground was largely relayed by social media networks on the Internet, especially on the micro blogging platform Twitter.

Nobody really cares much about economic data except as a guide to policy economic phenomena do not have the same intrinsic fascination for us as the internal resonances of the atom or the functioning of the vesicles and other organelles of a living cell.

I refuse to accept the view that Ukraine is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of communism s legacy that we can never see the bright daybreak of peace and true European unity.

The Bush administration has been disastrously anti scientific. It has been staffed with ideologues who reject or neglect climate science, and who set the US on a dangerous and irresponsible path.

That was a tragic missed opportunity, for a US Soviet agreement, reached in what was still an essentially binary international system, might have had truly global meaning.

But most are experiencing disastrous output contractions amid severe fiscal constraints and nearly collapsed monetary systems, thus undermining two integral components of a successful nation state economic independence and self sustaining growth.

Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic. Having eluded killers like malaria and AIDS, one should not then be killed prematurely by cancer especially a form of cancer that could have been prevented with something as simple and as affordable as a vaccine.