Word: fated
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...nascent micro-finance of Harvard’s social life. Party grants have propelled the development of a quasi-fetal social scene among the world’s most socially underprivileged animals—Harvard students—and our vital interests as students are wrapped up in their fate. We undergraduates, described as “citizen-scholars” by the UC Executive Board its Oct. 3 memorandum to Dean Pilbeam, have a right to be consulted before any decisions are made that affect our lives as students, particularly those that limit access to our most vital resource...
...least because Roberts comes off as upbeat as a roomful of Rotarians, while Johnson, despite his vast accomplishments--including singlehandedly compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language--was haunted by the inevitability of disappointment. The poem, "The Vanity of Human Wishes," is a devastating reflection on remorseless fate. "Life protracted is protracted Woe," the poet says...
Roberts, by all appearances, is fate's darling: wealthy, handsome, at the pinnacle of his profession. Having recovered from a strange but evidently benign seizure this summer at his vacation home in Maine, the young chief no doubt sees protracted life as pretty good. (At 52, Roberts is 35 years younger than the court's oldest Justice, John Paul Stevens, and is surely the first Chief Justice whose schedule has included back-to-school night at his children's grade school.) His combination of keen intelligence and undeniable charm is such that another of his college professors, the liberal lion...
...time that Muslims and Christians recognized just how similar they are - the fate of the world depends on it. That's the message being sent out today by 138 Muslim leaders and scholars in an open letter to their Christian counterparts saying that world peace hinges on greater understanding between the two faiths...
...collapsed and died during the Boston Marathon three years ago, it wasn't lack of water that felled her. It was too much water. A study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine found that an alarming number of runners and other athletes are risking a similar fate. The problem is that drinking too much water dilutes the blood's normal salt content...