Word: fateful
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...indefinitely. Each Senator has a vote, and a majority of the 100-member body is necessary. On Jan. 6, when the action would start, Dan Quayle would still be Vice President. In his constitutional role as president of the Senate, he could preside over the session dealing with his fate. Legal experts are uncertain, however, whether Quayle could cast a decisive tie-breaking vote on this question, as he can on legislation...
...know Stephen's fate, but the reader is left in little doubt. Scarcely a third of the way into the story, Drabble's narrator remarks, "But he will not die for a while yet." Instead of suspense, the emphasis of this novel falls on what it feels like to be alive and aware at a specific historical period, in this case the first six months of 1988. And Drabble's rather disjointed panorama of diverse characters caught in the amber of time produces an eerily convincing sense of life in a technologically advanced society, of the horrors that are reported...
...Texas state capitol in 1971 on what may still be the single weirdest day in the history of that peculiar institution. Jets roared over Austin in "missing man" formation, while beneath the rotunda, in hour after hour of bloodstained oratory, brows were darkened and teeth gnashed over the fate of Our Boys. It was a patriotic orgy, although, as the Texas Observer noted at the time, no one uttered a peep about exactly what Our Boys were doing over there when they got caught. One received the impression that they had been mysteriously kidnapped while distributing gum to small children...
...SPECIAL SENATE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE FATE OF American mias has made little progress in its inquiry into those who prey on families of missing service personnel. Chairman John Kerry promised that the committee would probe possible fraud and corruption by entrepreneurs who collect huge sums from families but have yet to find a live MIA. One reason for the stalemate: ex- Congressman BILL HENDON, who collected tens of thousands of dollars as an MIA activist. Hendon, who should be a subject of the investigation, has been put on the committee staff by Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, the vice...
...nationalists, environmentalists and Old Guard communists. Akayev says his major aim is to create "a strong and powerful middle class that will guarantee future stability." It is a commendable goal, but until such social forces develop, the future of reforms in both states may depend wholly on the political fate of their Presidents...