Word: fatalism
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...waits any longer, Summers will display a fatal misunderstanding of the issue before him. The crux of the issue has always been that Harvard’s workers should not be consigned to live in poverty. Every day that Harvard’s lowest-paid workers wait on Summers is another day they work without a living wage. Summers owes it to them at least to announce his decision in a timely fashion, regardless of the conclusion he has reached...
...general aviation industry, meanwhile, is circling its Cessnas. Even before the Bishop incident, measures were pending in Congress that would mandate annual psychological tests for the nation's 650,000 licensed pilots; the schools are pushing to tighten only terminal security. Whatever emerges, Bishop's fatal flight may teach aviation schools a new lesson in safety...
...roles. "Since I grew up in it," she says, "I'm comfortable with all sides of the business." That perhaps accounts for the untroubled ease with which she inhabits a range that has included a political activist in Waking the Dead and the girlfriend who survived Pollock's fatal car crash. "Jennifer is a great listener," says Mind director Ron Howard, "both onscreen and off." That capacity girds her work with a passion as fierce as it is unspoken...
Under Thompson and Ridge, bad--and sometimes fatal--decisions were made. The U.S. government allowed postal workers to continue breathing the air of a sorting facility filled with anthrax spores; it went tearing off to stock up on Cipro when many scientists believed it unnecessary and even dangerous; it wrung its hands about whether to order 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine--sowing its own kind of terror with its very indecision; and it allowed open speculation about quarantines to spread unchecked, without a clear consensus on the extent of its legal powers to impose them in the first place...
CHECHNYA Fatal Clashes Emboldened by the international war on terrorism, Russian forces have increased their attacks on Chechen rebels. In a three-day battle close to the capital Grozny, Russian officials claimed that 84 rebels were killed. During the Russians' attempt to flush out insurgents from the mountainous area around Tsotsin-Yurt, the rebels countered that 40 soldiers died in fighting while they had lost only eight...