Word: fated
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...Washington tale, illustrating how a single special interest with a single-minded devotion to a cause can trump a broad coalition and the national interest. The Senate is considering a similar bill, and a reform effort led by Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana seems likely to meet a similar fate. The Bush Administration has made noises about a veto; Kind says the President, famously reluctant to admit mistakes, confided in a private chat that he regrets signing the lavish 2002 bill. But it's never wise to bet against the farm lobby, which spent $135 million on lobbying and donations...
...While Democrats tussled on Tuesday night about whether Sen. Hillary Clinton was forthcoming about the fate of 20 million documents in Little Rock's Clinton Library, Giuliani could face his own questions about the handling of archival material. On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune reported that associates of the former mayor arranged to have 2,100 boxes of documents from his tenure at City Hall copied and archived before they were returned to the city. The unusual chain of custody - since outlawed by New York City - raises questions about whether documents were deleted or sanitized...
...casino moratorium. With proper implementation, expanded gambling will inject Massachusetts with much-needed energy and money. It is narrow-minded to deny these benefits to the Commonwealth while pointing to overblown social consequences. For instance, the argument that casinos will bankrupt poor people who trust their fortunes to fate neglects their free will and assumes that they cannot think and act for themselves. And to maintain a social conscience, part of the new revenue will also be used to treat gambling addictions—which, thanks to Connecticut’s casinos, are nothing new. Though the plan may disgust...
...hasty manner. He is one of those blessed directors who first knows what he wants and then quickly recognizes when he's got it. His last movie, Find Me Guilty, a wild take on an endless Mafia trial, was under-praised and under-attended; I hope the same fate does not overtake Devil. It is, like quite a few Lumet pictures, rather small in scale, easy to overlook. But I think it is time to gather around a director who has embraced his octogenarian bleakness and sing his praises. Ultimately, I think you'll laugh a lot at what...
...part, Holmes—secure in her brother’s home, though still unsure of the fate of her own house—seemed ready to resign herself to nature. In the meantime, she’s heading out on a little vacation...