Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard-Radcliffe merger, official as of last Friday, seals the fate of Agassiz House: it belongs to the new Radcliffe Institute...
...fingertips is the apparatus of one of the most powerful state information machines in the world, and it can all be harnessed to send one simple message to each of those 1.3 billion people: There is no God. When you die, you're dead. The only finger on your fate is your own. "Many people in China are facing a crisis of faith," he admits. "But I still believe that the majority of the Chinese people believe in dialectical materialism. As Deng Xiaoping predicted: As long as China survives, socialism will survive...
...more volumes of Einstein papers--and many more embarrassing revelations about his private life (his flirtations, his stormy divorce from Mileva, his possible dalliance with the daughter of the woman who would become his second wife, his estrangement from his two sons, one of whom was schizophrenic)--Lieserl's fate shadows the Einstein legend like some unsolved equation...
...author of The Young Einstein (1985), of Zackheim's theory. "I'd like to see what evidence has been dug up to support it." But Boston University historian Robert Schulmann, director of the Einstein Papers Project, is much less impressed. He concedes that Zackheim's conclusions about Lieserl's fate are "as good as anything I could come up with, or anyone else. But," he emphasizes, "it's speculation." Harvard physicist and Einstein historian Gerald Holton is highly critical. "She worked very hard traipsing through all those Serbian cemeteries," he says of Zackheim's prodigious research effort, "and came...
...Bush. As Democrats go through the process of selecting their candidate, they will undoubtedly weigh up how their two front-runners, Al Gore and Bill Bradley, will fare against each of the GOP candidates. In this regard, there is a certain synergy between McCain and Bradley; conversely, McCain?s fate in the Republican party could be directly proportionate to Bradley?s progress in the Democratic primaries. While the two men disagree on some controversial issues, like abortion, they share a dissatisfaction with the political status quo that will appeal to the many voters fed up with politics as usual...