Word: fate
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...Clinton's pygmy proposals are representative of more than what they seem at first glance. In 1960, John F. Kennedy '40 and Richard M. Nixon spent much of the fall arguing about the fate of Quemoy and Matsu, two small islands off the coast of China. Yet for all the hand-wringing that year and thenceforth about spending so much of the election on such minute specks of land, the argument was really about how the candidates would deal with the Communist menace--a debate definitely worth having. When George Bush spent the fall of 1988 talking about the Pledge...
...House is feeling the pressure to make a deal fast. Just minutes after the House bill passed the bill, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was sequestered with chief House tax writer Bill Archer, looking for ways to overcome presidential reservations about what a radical tax bill would mean for the fate of the balanced budget deal. Both measures represent the biggest tax break since the Reagan administration. "We're going to work with the president and his team," a jubilant Newt Gingrich said. "We're going to try to find everything we can to get the bill signed, and I have...
...conniving Hollywood agent. He works every meeting, with gods, mortals or demons, as if it's a bored crowd in a Vegas lounge ("So is this an audience or a mosaic?" he asks after a gag bombs). Even his compliments have the bite of insults: "You look like the Fate worse than death," he purrs to one of three haggish wraiths. And when he blows his smoldering top, it's like Krakatau in orgasm. In character, design and performance, Hades...
...gave him two flannel shirts and a box of Peppermint Patties. He spends most of his time in jail reading the piles of mail he receives. He also reads books. Last month it was W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, and he is now finishing Man's Fate by Andre Malraux. A book about a young man's spiritual quest and one about revolutionaries--McVeigh must be taking both seriously...
...years, the book he has cherished is The Turner Diaries, a fictional account of an uprising by a courageous band of white supremacists. Earl Turner, the hero, does not flinch at the idea of dying for his cause. Indeed, in the book's final pages he joyfully embraces this fate. "Brothers!" he says, addressing an elite group called the Order. "When I entered your ranks for the first time, I consecrated my life to our Order and to the purpose for which it exists...Now I am ready to meet my obligation fully. I offer you my life." The jury...