Word: fatalism
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...troupe of villagers, wielding torches, as it were (not really). The planned expansion of grad school and faculty housing in the Riverside neighborhood apparently constitutes an infringement on our neighbors’ peaceable, hunter-gatherer way of life. All this from the cohort who two years ago delivered a fatal preemptive blow to hopes of a first-rate contemporary art museum on the Charles...
...troupe of villagers, wielding torches, as it were (not really). The planned expansion of grad school and faculty housing in the Riverside neighborhood apparently constitutes an infringement on our neighbors’ peaceable, hunter-gatherer way of life. All this from the cohort who two years ago delivered a fatal preemptive blow to hopes of a first-rate contemporary art museum on the Charles...
...Letting him go was a fatal error. Upon returning to Pakistan's lawless Waziristan region, Mesud rallied tribesmen and former Taliban fighters to hit back at the U.S. and its ally, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. On Oct. 9, as Mesud later told the press, he ordered his men to kidnap two Chinese engineers working on a dam site near the Afghan border. China and Pakistan have close diplomatic and economic ties, and the engineers' capture caused embarrassment in Islamabad and anguish in Beijing. In exchange for his hostages' freedom, Mesud demanded the release of dozens of Islamic militants arrested...
Friends of Pring-Wilson characterized the six- to eight-year prison sentence handed down yesterday as draconian, while residents of the neighborhood where the fatal stabbing occurred said the defendant got off easy...
...proctors and doctors explain, however, that reluctance could prove fatal...