Word: fatale
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...mistake proved fatal. Six plays later, Harvard scored its first touchdown of the day, and Anders Blewett’s point-after gave the Crimson a 7-6 lead it never relinquished...
...next Rose-caused bullet proved to be far more difficult to dodge and, in the end, was far more fatal to Harvard’s hopes of a second straight Ivy-clinching win over Penn...
...modernize its image would sooner or later have foundered on the rock of Diana. The Windsors selected her as a future Queen on much the same basis as they would have bought a horse; she came from good stock, had excellent bones, and had never been saddled. Their fatal miscalculation was to forget that beautiful 19-year-old girls grow up, and develop the characteristics that come with age; revenge, among them. The key point about Diana, however, was less that she would not take her many humiliations lying down, and more that she understood precisely what modern Britain wanted...
...They say that the problems in the south are isolated cases, that the attacks are undertaken by criminals," says Rohan Gunaratna, author of a seminal study of al-Qaeda. "But they are making a fatal mistake. Jemaah Islamiah has infrastructure there, and there is no doubt that Phuket was considered on the list of targets before Bali. The Thais must act now or risk (having their own) Bali...
...Burrell's authorized revelations moved an extra 1.4 million Mirrors last week. He didn't lift the veil much on Diana, but he savaged the Spencer family, whom he feels abused her and stoked his prosecution. He said her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, phoned Diana six months before her fatal accident with a "hate-filled, personal attack" for dating Muslims, prompting the Princess to cry on Burrell's shoulder. That was the last time the mother and daughter spoke. He called Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, a hypocrite for championing her against the Windsors in his famous eulogy at Westminster...