Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luke's Hair Design in Somers, New York, the main topic of TV conversation these days is not Jessica Fletcher's latest murder mystery or Roseanne Connor's most recent family crisis. It is the fate of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the Beverly Hills, California, brothers awaiting a verdict on charges of murdering their parents. "One way or another, every day it comes up in conversation," says Rosalie Mignano, 29, a nail technician at the salon. "I've really come to care about them as people...
...image clearly shows that contrary to a previous assumption that Christ's expression is one of anger, it instead betrays impatience, as though He were saying, "Silence! Now I will pronounce judgment!" Even more significant, no one in the fresco except the Virgin Mary seems to know his own fate, and thus everyone looks fearful. Says Fabrizio Mancinelli, the Vatican's curator of Renaissance art: "Michelangelo's way of interpreting this theme -- the uncertainty -- was not in line with the church at the time. The church wanted to project itself as the only certainty...
...court of public opinion is evenly divided on the brothers' fate. Callers to Court TV, which has devoted 600 hours to the trial, split on the question of whether they believed the brothers or the prosecution; so did a group assembled for Dateline NBC. Now it's up to the only viewers who count -- the jurors -- to decide...
...paper do not make a law-governed state. Russians remember grandiloquent provisions on human rights contained in constitutions written for Stalin in 1936 and Leonid Brezhnev in 1977 -- rights they never enjoyed. Without stable government institutions in place to enforce the constitution, this document might suffer the same fate...
...coalition of student leaders led by former Undergraduate Council member Hillary K. Anger '93-94 and Advocate executive Niko Canner '94 convened behind closed doors last night to discuss the fate of the Undergraduate Council and to begin developing reform proposals that will ultimately be presented to the council's re-evaluation committee...