Word: fateful
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Long gone are the days when students interviewed with House masters for a place in their desired residence. Gone too are the days when students ranked their choices from highest to lowest before meeting the fate of a computer. And now gone this year is the latest compromise system of "non-ordered choice," where each student was almost guaranteed one of his or her top four choices (though in no particular order). As we ponder the succession of Five-Year Plans(More or less), we might wonder with some astonishment whether Harvard is on the same track as another famous...
...usually the fate of Harvard's lightweight crew to be a second sister to its heavy brothers. Heavyweight coach Harry Parker had, coming into 1995, lost only 23 dual meets in 32 years, while light coach Charlie Butt "only" had a record...
...central issue is the fate of the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Israel has agreed to withdraw, and according to reports from Israeli officials, the two sides for the first time have an implicit understanding that the withdrawal will be total. The two sides have accepted the principle of "equality" of security arrangements on and around the Golan. Both countries, for instance, would remove their armed forces from the border region. However, the Syrians are demanding that the demilitarization be symmetrical; Israel insists that it cannot afford to pull back...
Much more important than the commercial fate of Ambergene is the awesome scientific significance of what Cano may have done. If other laboratories confirm that microbes can survive over tens of millions of years, then humanity may gain new respect for the uncounted hordes of invisible organisms that dominate the world through the eons, even as bigger, supposedly smarter creatures come...
That's life according to the movies and the rest of a pop culture devoted to offering us emotionally reassuring clichas on a weekly basis. (A good current example is My Family, another immigrant saga, in which any seasoned moviegoer can foretell the fate of every character the minute he or she appears, as well as the shamelessly sentimental ending.) But life according to life is usually not so predictable. So, when you run into something like The Perez Family, a movie that is full of lifelike bestartlements but still comes out kind of nice in the end, you have...