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Travolta, John •questions surrounding tragedy befallen...
...Kahn said. “That connection looked pretty bad.” Four days later, the two received an e-mail from Picower informing them that the Florida-based foundation, which has offices on New York’s Park Avenue, had not escaped the fate that has befallen Madoff’s many victims...
...world (after William Shakespeare and Lao Tse), his works, including his masterpiece “The Prophet,” have largely sunk into obscurity. The Lebanese-American poet was either deified or demonized for most of the 20th century. Recently a far worse fate has befallen his works: indifference. Published in 1923, “The Prophet” enjoyed relative success among Gibran’s contemporaries and was rediscovered in the 60s as a spiritual guidebook written by an “Oriental wise man.” The truth of the matter, though, is that Gibran...
...finance and using one's business acumen to make solid investments offered little protection and security. "The essence of it was that this was a man's emotional spiral downward due to financial difficulties. He saw it as a tragedy, a disaster that had befallen him. He lost perspective," said the LAPD's Moore. "He thought his life circumstances were because he was a failure. He got caught up in a rabbit hole, apart from reality...
...accept the need to show a united face to the world in the approach to the Olympics. But within days of the closing ceremony, a public protest demonstration against the government in a Beijing suburb signaled that the grace period was over. The string of disasters that has befallen the nation since then will only add to questions about where the limits of the long-suffering public's patience lie. This week, anger over the tainted-milk-powder scandal was palpable at one of Beijing's main Children's Hospitals, where hundreds of anxious parents were lined up with their...