Word: fated
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...most of the past two years, he has withdrawn inside a tight circle consisting largely of aides and friends from his days before the White House. He has been trying on occupations--college professor, author, businessman, even adviser to Google--that might suit someone of his temperament had fate not made him the only son and namesake of a U.S. Senator...
...communicate. For months, George Bush has agonized that Saddam Hussein has not got the message. Tariq Aziz buried that illusion last week in Geneva... If clarity has been assured, only tragedy remains. Both sides, it seems, are ready for war because neither is willing to suffer a supposedly worse fate--the humiliation that capitulation, or its perception, implies. --TIME...
...October 12, he took a second shift to cover for a friend. The overtime saved his life. The car bomb that destroyed the Sari Club and killed 191 people was parked at the corner where Suameria would have been standing if he'd been partying. "I believe in fate," he says, "and it wasn't my fate to die that night...
...Wiranatha knows that fate dealt him a survivor card this time around?one of his bars, the sophisticated Ku DE Ta in Seminyak, is managing to stay afloat due to a loyal expat clientele?but he worries about others. "We have a ceremony to send the victims to heaven, but what about those left behind? Those who lost a father, a business, how do they eat, how do they send their children to school?" If the tourists don't come back, or another bomb hits the region, Wiranatha knows that as a last resort, he can always return...
...month prior to her husband's disappearance; it named "my beloved wife ... the one I love most on Earth" as sole beneficiary. Given that the gruff Teddy was not known to spout love poetry, the new will's romance novel stylings were a prime reason for its rejection. The fate of Chinachem, a private company, is still murky. Nina will appeal, but for now the nonagenarian Wang Din-shin is Hong Kong's newest centi-millionaire...