Word: fated
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...announced it. He said, now some among us have done something that's going to cause the army to come in here and nobody will be safe. Let's bring forward the potion and let's bring the children first. By having the children die first, he sealed the fate of their parents and other elders, because no one would have any reason to live. As this was all going on, the pavilion was surrounded with armed guards with guns and crossbows, so people were not going to go anywhere. Many appeared to have been injected with poison...
...long season, after hundreds of minutes played, the Harvard women’s soccer team’s fate came down to penalty kicks.It didn’t quite seem fair, but at the same time, it was perfectly fitting for two teams that, in their two matchups this season, seemed to match up stride for stride. On Sept. 17, the Crimson and Northeastern went took a 1-1 tie into overtime before senior Nicole Rhodes scored the game-winner in the 99th minute. The teams weren’t strangers to each other, and they certainly weren?...
...Maliki will address the nation on Monday in a bid to garner public support for the agreement. Washington can only sit back and watch as Iraq's exercise in democracy determines the fate of U.S. troops in the country...
...national campaigns, we are assured that it is no less than the fate of the world. The fundamental importance of winning supposedly exonerates Karl “Boy Genius” Rove to the right, and now Rahm “Rahmbo” Emanuel to the left. Democrats excuse Obama’s waffle on public financing;Republicans defend McCain’s “Compliance Fund.” They send out their best strategists to hem, haw, and equivocate. Journalists, currying favor, perhaps, or tied to their own politics, let them...
Nearly buried in the non-stop media coverage of Election Day was a much sadder story, especially for those who, like me, grew up idolizing Velociraptors and wanting to visit Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton ’64 died of cancer at the age of 66. As fate would also have it, “ER”—the primetime TV medical drama Crichton created, wrote, and produced—is in the midst of its 15th and final season, ending after February sweeps in 2009. As can already be seen in other medical dramas like...