Word: fated
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...risk again by offering a cell phone to another detainee. The phone was clearly contraband, as indicated by all the signs hanging around the station. But, for Mohammed, the instinct for self-preservation was overridden by the desire to help the other guy call home. That sealed his fate: The police chief saw the act of disobedience, and Mohammed was thrown into a cell where I could no longer...
...time I got home to cushy California, interest in the fate of my translator was drying up. I was the liability to my school, the one with the name people could pronounce, the one whose byline was on the article. But if it weren’t for Mohammed, I would never have gotten the story. I did a dozen interviews about what happened to me, and when the story ended in “my translator is still in jail!” people would murmur words of support, but little more. Mallory Simon at CNN has been...
...draw people of all backgrounds. It was their stories that strengthened my faith in Obama’s ability to transform this nation. It was the wife of a war veteran who held signs at rallies so that no other solder would share her husband’s fate. It was the cancer patient who made phone calls to make sure that all Americans had affordable health care. It was the senior citizen who canvassed for hours in the pouring rain to ensure that his grandchildren would have a better future. Through them, I found that the things that bind...
...then fate intervened. What had seemed to be an innocent snowball fight during the first heavy snowfall ended in a sudden crunch as my femur snapped. Initially, I was sure I would make it to The Crimson’s Grand Elections ceremony the next day, at which we would welcome the new members of the editorial board. I thought that I would continue my duties as editorial chair, enjoy the final lectures of my fall term classes, and return to Cambridge for yet another reading period...
...experience seemed to put her ahead in the race for the top spot on the depth chart. But the injury bug bit the Harvard goaltending corps once again, only this time it was Martin who went down and Kessler who emerged the starter. The twist of fate prompted a historic season in which Kessler wrote herself into the NCAA record book—accomplishing in just her second year what took the Crimson’s last great netminder, Ali Boe ’06, an entire career.On March 8, Kessler stopped all 13 shots sent her way by Clarkson...