Word: fated
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...author of four other novels, Yu has earned his reputation as a literary brute, whose characters constantly suffer at the claws of icy fate. He openly admires Faulkner's novels, and the grotesque absurdities in Yu's fiction wouldn't feel out of place in Faulkner's degenerate American South: a teen tries to rape a woman in her 70s to see what it's like, a man tries to pawn his dead father's frozen body, a drunkard drowns in a cesspit...
...issue before the court on Tuesday and Wednesday wasn?t the fate of Duch?s former prisoners, but his own detention without trial by the Cambodian military court, which arrested him in 1999, long before the tribunal took custody of him on July 31 and charged him with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Duch's two lawyers argued that their client's rights had been so violated by his more than eight years of incarceration that he should be released, or at least placed under house arrest, ahead of his trial - or compensated with a reduced sentence if found...
...heart of the emerging impasse between the anti-Syrian "March 14" block, which forms the backbone of the government, and the pro-Syrian opposition was the fate of Hizballah's formidable military wing. The March 14 block seeks Hizballah's disarmament in line with U.N. resolutions. It fears that Hizballah's weapons are really intended to serve its patron Iran, thus dragging Lebanon into the frontline of the power struggle between Washington and Tehran over the latter's nuclear ambitions. Hizballah maintains that its weapons are the only means of deterring Israeli aggression against Lebanon and that calls...
...have ravaged the landscape, no matter how contaminated, nature finds a way to make the world its own once again,” Weisman said. During the talk yesterday, Weisman explained several examples of nature’s capacity for recuperation. At the top of his list was the fate of New York City. According to subway operators, civil engineers, and botanists, Gotham would see its subways flooded within two to three days, bridges collapsed within two to three centuries, and thriving full fledged forests within two to three millennia. Weisman also described the surprising state of the region around...
...telling any one of the fairy tales that people who are committing slow suicide always tell themselves and each other: that they are happy with their choices, that they have no regrets, that when your time is up it's all to do with the archaic cosmological notion called fate and nothing to do with...