Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nick Poole's empty-net goal with 32 seconds left sealed Harvard's fate, much to the delight of one happy goaltender. (Hint: he did not wear the "Veritas" on his shoulder...
Nick Poole sealed Harvard's fate with an empty-netter in the final minute...
Fatherland was originally intended to be a big-budget Hollywood film. Instead it has been turned into a relatively modest HBO movie (which debuted last weekend). That fate, however, is hardly to be lamented. The TV-size budget, for one thing, has forced director Christopher Menaul (Prime Suspect) to be resourceful. Instead of a lavish (and possibly campy) physical re- creation of the new Greater Germany, he suggests it in small, swift strokes. Tour buses carrying Western reporters on their first visit since the war roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also...
...attacks against other Jewish settlements. Says Uri Dromi, director of Israel's Government Press Office: "The message we want to send is that to get something out of Israel, you have to sit down and talk." Under the limited self-rule agreement that Israel signed with Yasser Arafat, the fate of all the settlements is to be decided in negotiations, scheduled to begin by April 1996, on the final status of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank...
...Beal with Roberta. This new life takes the chill out of her bones. But it also contains relentless poverty, intermittent abuse, the constant threat of self-destruction. These people can never escape whatever desperate moment they are caught in, never know the luxury of foresight. It is hard watching fate enfold them. But it is also a bracing experience not easily shaken...