Word: fated
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...have consequences, major characters can die, questions can be answered. But it's even better for the show's emotional impact. Lost is a good sci-fi yarn, but what makes it a great story is that it is about the struggles of people: about faith vs. reason, fate vs. free will and, especially, redemption. Jack (Matthew Fox) is haunted by his relationship with his father--literally haunted, as Dad may have come back from the dead. Locke (Terry O'Quinn) balances his faith, which gives him a connection to the mystical island, with a lifetime of having been lied...
Legal scholars start licking your chops: The fate of the known universe, or at least the known solar system, may lie in the hands of the ever-expanding jurisdiction of the United States Federal District Court in Hawaii. Last March, former nuclear safety officer Walter Wagner, along with Luis Sancho, petitioned for a temporary restraining order against the United States Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in order to stop the building and operating of CERN’s new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The reason...
...Millan assassination appears to have sparked new urgency on Capitol Hill to pass President Bush's $1.4 billion, three-year plan to help Mexico combat narco-terror. Yet, while the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the measure on Wednesday - even raising the funding to $1.6 billion - its fate on the House floor, and in the Senate, remains uncertain...
...gesture seems to have fallen flat. The National Accordance Front still appears uninterested in getting involved in a Maliki government. No doubt part of that calculation has much to do with lingering disputes between the two camps, such as over the fate of thousands of Sunni detainees in Iraqi jails the National Accordance Front wants freed. But a new reality is emerging that may factor into the thinking of potential political allies the Prime Minister is courting: Maliki is looking more and more like a lame duck as October elections in Iraq approach...
...match,” coach Dave Fish ’72 said of Omodele-Lucien’s 6-2, 7-6 (5) win. “He’s beginning to show signs of his real potential.”As the Crimson might have hoped, its fate was left in the hands of its co-captains.Playing at No. 2, junior Chris Clayton came back from a 5-2 deficit in the first set to force a tiebreaker, which he lost 7-3.At 4-4 in the second set, Clayton failed to convert three break points, and eventually lost...