Word: fated
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...duty from whatever doubts or insecurities crept in about the mission. In the classroom, I watched Perez's classmates debate the successes and failures of the current U.S. occupation strategy. They learned about the dangers of this particular war, from watching videos of an IED explosion to discussing the fate of West Point graduate Gen. Eric Shinseki, who was forced into retirement for contradicting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's estimates about how many troops would be needed in Iraq. But outside of the classroom, the cadets still mustered on the plain and marched in unison, a physical reminder of their...
...addiction and to make amends. But despite my pre-midterm clarity, it may be too late to repair one of my most important relationships. This January, Toscanini’s faces removal from its current Mass. Ave locale and I fear that I am partially responsible for its precarious fate. Yes, Harvard Real Estate Services decided to renovate the property, which it owns, and force the leasing stores to relocate. But I’ve made bad choices too. Toscanini’s, I’m sorry for those times the ubiquitous green logo of commercialized Seattle lattes lured...
...others will never have children, but all are likely to spend the biggest chunk of their life in the company of their partner only. Simply put, the definition of family is increasingly flexible, its constituent parts ever more diverse. While the family was once seen as a form of fate - it chose you - it's now increasingly something that Europeans choose and define by and for themselves. Censure won't deter women of dustier vintages from trying for babies, any more than disapproval stops couples, gay or straight, from cohabiting without the sanction of church, officialdom or parents. In this...
...hobbitheads worldwide broke out flagons of mead in celebration after Houghton Mifflin's announcement that, next spring, it plans to publish Children of Hurin, a tale that Tolkien tinkered with throughout his lifetime but never finished. The story follows two human siblings and their attempt to evade their tragic fate by overcoming a heavenly curse. Abandoned and resumed several times by Tolkien, some parts of the story were written in alliterative long-line poetry (a form in which he became interested in the 1920s), others were buried within larger compilations of fragmented stories, journals and miscellaneous other jottings. Over...
...could fill volumes detailing the geopolitical reasons America should abandon Darfur to its fate. The argument for military action, by contrast, rests on just two tarnished words. Last week a small crowd gathered in Kigali, Rwanda. "If you don't protect the people of Darfur today," said a man named Freddy Umutanguha, "never again will we believe you when you visit Rwanda's mass graves, look us in the eye and say 'Never again.'" Try offering a geopolitical answer to that...