Word: fated
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Over the summer, he worked on his receiving skills--his first love--in hopes of making the Tiger offense. But now, fate hath ensured that Ludwig will always be a safety...
...Japanese landscape of his adolescence. His early fiction and essays were unusually intense by Japanese standards, tinged with pessimism and despair. After 1963, when his first son was born brain damaged, Oe's work became even more personal; a helpless or deformed child figure recurs, suggesting both implacable fate and the possibility of redemption. Compared with the four previous laureates -- Octavio Paz, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott and Toni Morrison -- Oe is little known but, thanks to the Swedish Academy, not for long...
Racists will be delighted. Murray says he's not trying to make them happy. Statistical trends among whole racial groups mean nothing for the fate of any individual, he points out, and any given African American may have a higher IQ than any given white person. Much of what's been done in the name of affirmative action, Murray says, has been pernicious because it encourages people to think in terms of group identities. "The way that we used to talk about this country being a great place was to say, 'In America, you can go as far as your...
...Council bound to vote to sustain the sanctions. Russia wants Iraq to repay $6 billion in prewar military debts; France seeks to resume lucrative commercial ties with Baghdad; China has weapons to sell to Iraq. "You think they'd be on their best behavior when the U.N. has their fate in their hands," a Navy officer said, "but no, the Iraqis do just the opposite." The feisty speech given at the U.N. by Saddam's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz seemed to cinch the vote against the Iraqis. A U.N. official commented, "The Americans could not have had a better...
...mission over northern Laos on April 29, 1965, the 33- year-old pilot managed to parachute safely from his RF-101C jet and make radio contact with his home base after he hit the ground. But he was grabbed by Pathet Lao fighters and vanished. Unable to verify his fate, the Air Force listed Shelton as "known captured alive" for 29 years...