Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...network that connected the machines, with the result that pupils' papers disappeared in transit; elders researching in obscure parts of the swamp got lost forever because their pheromone cries for help were never received (many elders who had refused to use the system from the start were spared this fate, but they had been, by wide consensus lost already); in short, the hub began to dissolve...
...Fate sometimes provides by taking away. For six years, Zoran Djindjic backed nearly every idea, every group and every trend that might lessen the absolute hold on power enjoyed by his country's imperious, corrupt and autocratic President, Slobodan Milosevic. But the despotic leader stood unbowed and seemingly unconquerable. Relentless in his quest, Djindjic decided to run for mayor of Serbia's capital, Belgrade. Three weeks ago, to the astonishment of many observers, he won. Then, to no one's real surprise, Milosevic reacted to his party's stunning defeat by ordering the courts to annul the election, in which...
...direction Simpson is headed, no matter what happens in the civil trial, and it is hard to see how he can hold on to his house for very long under any circumstances. He may never regain the life of wealthy ease and adulation he once enjoyed--a fate for O.J. that may be as bad as prison...
...manner is almost too much to bear. Worse was my own realization, and no doubt that of many Jews who watched "Schindler's List," that the characters represented in the consoling father, the hysterical little boy, the murdered mother and the harassed young girl very likely met the same fate as did members of my own European family...
Harvard faced Boston University in the Beanpot during the 1992-1993 season and won 4-2. Earlier in that season, however, that same team lost to Boston University, 4-3. As fate would have it, the Crimson is slated to faceoff against the Terriers in the first round of the Beanpot this year...