Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winning, and we can't help but develop a real affection for him. The devastating effects of his irresponsibility on his wife, his mistress and his agent are clear enough, but it is also clear that Grady has nothing but good intentions. His general predicament is mirrored in the fate of his bloated masterpiece; despite all his ideas and plans, he just can't bring anything to a successful conclusion...
...Kuwait border. Secretary of State Warren Christopher today demanded their release, holding President Saddam Hussein responsible for their safety. Ramadan corrected a statement by a member of parliament who indicated over the weekend that the Americans could be released shortly.TIME Middle East bureau chief Dean Fischersays Hussein controls the fate of the prisoners. "The courts count for nothing, the Parliament counts for nothing and the vice president counts for nothing," says Fischer...
...this case, though, much of the truth remains in shadow. Harbury, a Harvard-educated lawyer, had been pressuring the U.S. and Guatemalan governments to determine the fate of her husband, who disappeared in the Guatemalan jungle in March 1992. Although U.S. officials told her several times they believed Bamaca was dead, they gave her no definitive answers; they insist they have none. Nor did they mention any possible CIA involvement. That detail emerged only after Congressman Robert Torricelli, a Democrat from New Jersey and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, learned from sources of his own that in January...
...ceremony in Austin, Texas, in September 1991. Soon after his March 1992 disappearance, she was told by Guatemalan military authorities that Bamaca had committed suicide rather than be captured and tortured by the army. But Harbury believed her husband was still alive and pressed for proof of his fate. In August 1993, authorities exhumed the body of a man they claimed was Bamaca; an autopsy revealed it was someone else...
...audiences go into frenzies of outrage over batterers and any batterees who dawdle before calling the hotline. In California and Massachusetts, Governors who are feverishly cutting programs that aid women in poverty are proposing actual increases in funds to combat domestic violence. Thanks to Nicole Brown Simpson's sad fate, we tell ourselves, we're all painfully aware of the problem. So why, a rational observer might inquire, are we simultaneously hell-bent on policies that will lock millions of women into violent and abusive relationships...