Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team finished the season with a 7-3 mark (4-3 Ivy), and the Bear gridders hope top be become the first squad since that championship team to win eight or more games. Their fate would seem to rest squarely on the shoulders of Brown's high-octane offense, which returns 10 of 11 starters from last season...
...that room seven years ago, and the students asked her how she had liked her first year. She replied that it was wonderful, the best year of college, and that the two of them had a lot to look forward to. As we retreated to our box-schlepping fate, I asked her whether she had really meant it. I was somewhat surprised when she said yes, until she explained why. "During your first year of college, you're surrounded by all these incredibly cool people and cool things," she said. "You don't realize until much later that most...
What emerged instead was a fearsome slew of questions born of other disasters. As the slow search for debris, bodies and the telltale "black boxes" proceeded--a ritual so morbidly familiar from the TWA Flight 800 crash two years ago--speculation reached for existing paradigms that would explain the fate of a plane belonging to an airline of sterling reputation. What is known of the cockpit's communications with air-traffic controllers appears to rule out terrorism. But not the terror of mechanical failure. And so the questions were asked. Was it a problem akin to what most probably destroyed...
There is luck and there is fate. Marc Rosset of Switzerland was eliminated from the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the first round. Ranked 47th in the world, Rosset, 27, decided to stay on in New York for practice with the best players in the world. He and his coach canceled their plan to fly to Geneva--on Swissair 111. That was luck...
...Burundi. He was used to danger, had dodged bullets, and once negotiated the release of his staff when they were kidnapped in Somalia. "He was always ambivalent about being in safe places," says his younger brother Tom. "But we were relieved when he was transferred to Geneva." Then came fate. On Wednesday, Gerety, late for one flight to Geneva, was transferred to another. Finally he was bumped to a third. It was Swissair...