Word: fate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...putting a cheeky pigherd in place. When a visitor to her office greeted her with the standard postrevolutionary salute, "Good morning, comrade," she fired back, "Don't you dare call me that. That is a word they use." If her secretary fouls up, Violeta joshingly threatens her with the fate that befell Rosario Murillo, who for eleven years was Pedro Joaquin Chamorro's executive assistant: she married Daniel Ortega...
When Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 walked into the offices of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) in December, 1987 to file a gender discrimination complaint against the all-male Fly Club, she expected to spark long-term debate over the fate of the final clubs. But she probably had no idea how long that debate would last...
...similarly ambiguous fate met the council's attempt to address poor College advising. This indeed represented a new, important concern for students, but the council could not decide how broad to make its plans for "student advocates," alternatives to the College's existing advising structure. Ultimately, a concrete proposal was delayed until fall...
...freshman year we were staying up late talking about all sorts of stuff," he says. One morning, conversation turned to philosophy: "the Heisenberg randomness principle, how it related to people's fate and religion and other metaphysical stuff," Hsia recollects. To himself, Hsia says, the notion of life's dependence on random chance posed no dilemma. But for the Catholic, intellectually committed Ocasio, the idea his actions might have no effect was unacceptable...
NATION: As Jim Wright's fate is sealed, the Capitol Hill ethics purge also topples majority whip Tony Coelho...