Word: fatales
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...seeking medical help for Robyn, who died in April 1986 of a bowel obstruction, after five days of illness. The parents, who had summoned a "spiritual healing" practitioner, maintained that their son had shown only intermittent flulike symptoms and seemed to be recovering just before taking a fatal turn. But medical experts testified that the child would probably have been feverish, vomiting and in obvious pain before his death. Had he been taken to a doctor, they asserted, the boy would still be alive. In one poignant moment at the trial, David Twitchell sadly voiced his misgivings: "If medicine could...
Lack of financing may also be fatal to the Mars race. The Jubilee Commission has placed the burden of fund raising on the individual teams, which must spend anywhere from $3 million to $15 million to complete each entry. Boosting the sailships into orbit is another worry; rocket launches are prohibitively expensive for most teams, which are desperately seeking help. Robert Staehle, head of the World Space Foundation, flew to Paris last month for a workshop with teams from Europe and Asia. The goal: a proposal to the European Space Agency for piggybacking the sailships on a 1992 Ariane rocket...
Central to the question of what went wrong is the question of whether Hitler's rise to power was inevitable. Was there some fatal flaw in the history of Germany that predestined it to the swastika and the gas chamber? In one sense, everything that has happened may seem inevitable, simply because of the fact that it did happen. Yet it is extraordinary how narrowly Hitler triumphed, how many accidents and variables had to line...
...hopes almost miraculously returned. Hindenburg was persuaded to try the idea of a new conservative coalition: Hitler as Chancellor, Papen as Vice Chancellor, with only two other Nazis in the Cabinet. "In this way," said the non-Nazi Minister of Economic Affairs, "we will box Hitler in." A fatal misjudgment. A month later, the Reichstag was in flames, Hitler was persuading Hindenburg to suspend civil liberties, and the most terrible chapter in 20th century history was about to open...
...intransigence or "a lack of political savvy." It was because Anthony would not be coerced into abandoning his principles "for the good of PBH." Cohen would be proud of Anthony's strength in the face of such attacks which question his love for the institution. His "fatal flaw" was not buckling under to superior authority, not selling out in the name of consensus-building. We should all have flaws as terrible as the courage of our convictions...