Word: fate
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...bedside. He remains mute the entire time, allowing the focus to stay on the three voices of this one woman. In reality, though, this son is Albee and the three voices are his, the voice of the playwright. At last, the son is in control of his mother's fate. The result is a brilliant and sensitive play, superbly presented in the current production. All theater buffs are urged to go see Three Tall Women, a highlight of recent theater...
Lampke said the Brattle's fate hinges upon area movie patrons' interest...
Richard Rogers, a statistics professor at UMass-Amherst, said that art affordable, state-subsidized education allowed him to avoid the fate of his father--a lifelong bus drive who longed to be an academic...
This is not the first time Quebeckers have been asked to choose the fate of their province. In 1980, when the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) last held power, Quebeckers rejected the vague notion of remaining in "sovereignty-association" with the rest of Canada by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent...
That seems a cruel fate for the principle of world community made flesh with such high purpose. Roelof ("Pik") Botha, South Africa's Foreign Minister from 1977 to last year, still believes in the U.N. idea despite its shortcomings. Though the institution is "like a company that can't market its products and whose board members put their own interests first," Botha suspects that devolution of peacekeeping authority to the regional level could bring the same strengths as any corporate shake-up nowadays. Najman goes further. He thinks the U.N. will increasingly turn to "contracting" out its duties as dire...