Word: fateful
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Leading political experts discussed the fate of the former Soviet Union and its possible impact on the United States in a panel discussion at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...still frets about the fate of his country. Gorbachev: "I would like Yeltsin to succeed. I am afraid that in certain circumstances he could take an authoritarian position...
Jewish support for Israel is taken as a sign of dual loyalty, or of disloyalty to America. Does that mean that Arab-Americans who feel a personal stake in the Palestinians' fate would also be considered "un-American" if they opposed U.S. policies favorable to Israel? Or that African-Americans who call Africa their heritage are not "true Americans...
...Call it fate...
...fate of Italian Jewry during World War II has a special poignancy. This oldest of Judaic communities in the Western world had survived nearly two millenniums of intermittent repression and persecution. Italy was among the last countries of Europe to eliminate the ghetto, when Rome was liberated and the Papal States were abolished in 1870. Yet during the next 60 or so years, life for Italian Jews was sweet indeed. Anti-Semitism was of little moment in a country where they were such a tiny minority -- 47,000 in a population of 45 million, as of 1910 -- that most Italians...