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...else involved [IRAQ: WEAPONS INSPECTIONS, Sept. 30]? This would be a war involving millions of innocent people. Saddam would be safe and sound, while helpless Iraqis would experience the same horror that the victims of Sept. 11 did. Oil and politics are the factors that are deciding the fate of Iraq's people, not moral values. Where is our humanity? Look at the promises the U.S. made to Afghanistan before the war there. Afghan officials now claim there are not enough funds to build the promised infrastructure. Not enough funds? And the U.S. wants to start...
That means he is a perfect citizen of what we might call Andersonville, that cheerless Southern California tract of warehouses, alleys and unwelcoming apartments whose prisoners suffer the blind assaults of grim fate without a murmur, without even the consolations of, say, existentialism to lighten their burden. This movie is the writer-director's most airless exploration of this postmodernist's Yoknapatawpha County, an antimovie that rejects even the most minimal obligations to character and plot that commercial films are supposed to respect. Stuff happens to Anderson's people. They just keep soldiering...
...increasingly ominous weather wasn’t enough to portend the Harvard football team’s eventual fate in a heartbreaking 17-14 loss to Northeastern on Saturday, perhaps the Crimson’s play in the first quarter...
...dancers worry about the fate of their burgeoning programs...
...years later, Birdie is engaged to Earl Urquhart, a philandering suitor uniquely unfit to wed this wonderful woman. Just before the wedding, though, Earl rashly risks his bride in a poker game, and Finus wins her from him. Fate prevents Finus from collecting on his debt, and some years later he marries Birdie’s childhood friend, Avis, even though he doesn’t love...