Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, after being inundated with e-mail and phone calls from alumnae anxious about the fate of their alma mater, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson began a "National Outreach Tour" to facilitate discussion and ideas about Radcliffe's future. Unfortunately, at the tour's first stop last Thursday in Washington, D.C., alumnae instead merely shared stories from their time at Radcliffe...
...book at a corrupt, a criminally corrupt, mayor" and says the museum was "keenly aware of a certain bitter irony." The article's ending makes the connection between the two scandals explicit: "So what happened to Kushshi-harbe, the alleged philandering leader of Nuzi? No tipoff to Clinton's fate there. The cuneiform tablet with the ruling has never been found...
Simply put, the voters are no longer in control of this process. Polls will be taken and mid-term elections will send a signal of some sort to Washington, and representatives will continue talking to constituents. But in the end, the decision about the President's fate will lie solely with the political calculations and consciences of 535 Americans. That seems wrong. Without a pressing need for a change in presidential leadership, impeachment is not worth the sense of powerlessness it will produce in the country at large...
Once in control of its own destiny, the Crimson's fate now lies in the hands of other teams. Harvard hopes to qualify for the Northern Championships on a tie-breaker...
Brazil must endure a painful cure, including possible tax increases and spending cuts. Its success or failure will decide not only the well-being of the world's ninth-largest economy--and the preservation of the strong, dollar-pegged currency, the real--but also possibly the fate of the global system of free trade and investment...