Word: fated
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...tarnished superpower status, propelled by feel-good expectations of the U.S.'s further slide. One should not underestimate Russia's resentment over the fall of the Soviet Union (Putin has called it the greatest disaster of the 20th century) and its hope that the U.S. will suffer the same fate. Indeed, Kremlin strategists surely relish the thought of a U.S. deeply bogged down not only in Iraq but also in a war with Iran, which would trigger a dramatic spike in the price of oil, a commodity in plentiful supply in Russia...
...history. In his astonishing address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1838, on "the perpetuation of our political institutions," the 28-year-old Lincoln foresaw the inevitable rise in a modern democracy like ours of skepticism and worldliness. Indeed, he worried about the fate of free institutions in a maturing nation no longer shaped by a youthful, instinctive and (mostly) healthy patriotism...
...fate of the General Education requirement rests in the ability of Harris’ standing committee to overcome the certitude and deadlock of the past four years. They will be faced with proposals by Faculty members for courses that do not fit the guise of the General Education philosophy. They must have the academic and political acumen...
...know how the Summers saga ends—badly, following the unforgivable suggestion that biological differences arising from one’s sex might matter in human cognition. He sealed his fate not even by positing a controversial belief, but by his mere suggestion that it could be the case—and no matter that his actions spoke loud, that he did more than anyone, for instance, to make a Harvard education affordable to poor and middle-income families. Summers was punished for doing what, in the best of worlds, intellectuals would do more often: taking advantage...
...first sight,” he jokes, “but I definitely thought she was really hot.” While her friends were prom dress shopping, Sawlit was heading up to Cambridge during her last semester of high school to visit her new beau. And again, as fate would have it, Sawlit, after transferring from Pforzheimer to Dunster, was placed in the same entryway as Hastrup and just a few floors below her future fiancé’s suite. Hastrup, of course, was a bold suitor. “Every time he would walk...