Word: fateful
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...amid boycotts by veterans groups and Republican leaders -- including most contenders for the presidential nomination -- who protested that Hanoi had done far toolittle to help account for U.S. servicemen missing in the Vietnamese conflict. "All signs point to Vietnam willfully withholding information which could resolve the fate of many Americans lost in the war," saidSenate Majority Leader Bob Dole. But the President, citing increased Vietnamese cooperation on the issue as relations thawed over the last year, countered that normalization was the "next appropriate step. With this new relationship, we will be able to make more progress." Despite political concerns,TIME...
...city's southern edge, the U.N. could not keep the Serbs at bay. Seeking protection, some 2,000 civilians have assembled at the tiny U.N. outpost at Potocari, north of the city, and the Dutch troops are attempting to regroup around the area. There was no word on the fate of 30 Dutch hostages taken by Serb forces over the weekend. Srebrenica is the first of the six "safe areas" for civilians, which were established by the U.N. two years ago, to be overrun by Serb forces.TIME's Mark Thompsonsays: "The fall of Srebrenica forces the West into a decision...
...polls he ranked with Gandhi and Churchill as a hero of modern history. Though his fame was expertly fostered by the public-relations machinery of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its March of Dimes campaign, which helped finance Salk's work, national adulation was still an unexpected fate for a dedicated scientist in an unglamorous field...
...what's really interesting means digging into a number of unsettling questions. Is the poet's embrace of academia (even more than fiction writers, poets are likely to teach for a living) a bad thing? In an age of computers whose memories dwarf our own, what is the fate of the old-fashioned practice of learning poems by heart? Does that easily brandished term Postmodernism in fact herald anything new, or are we seeing the mere aftershocks of the modernist earthquake that erupted three-quarters of a century...
...give a rat's rump for historical truth. Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist taking a crack at a lucrative script-writing assignment, does. The subject of the movie, called Masai Dreams, is a striking French anthropologist named Claudia Cohn-Casson, whose work among the Masai, and whose fate at the hands of the Nazis, illustrate the collapse of the 20th century's grandest assumptions about reason and scientific objectivity...