Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most prominent among Heimert's administrative roles was his position as a committee chair on the Committee of Fifteen, which decided the fate of the most egregious offenders of the 1969 University Hall takeover...
...then there's the Force. What is this Force exactly? Why is it "strong" and why does it force the hand of time and fate, allowing good to triumph in the end? We do know that it is something far beyond the limited scope of human ability. As Shmi Skywalker told her son, it lays a path before all of us, and it is our choice whether to take it. The Force demands we seek out and take up our vocation, with love and humility, with faith and loyalty...
Yeltsin's fate and that of Russia have in some ways come to resemble each other. Seven years ago, Russians pinned hopes for a peaceful, prosperous future on Yeltsin. As his turbulent and sometimes bloody presidency draws to a close, both the President and his people are sunk in depression, their dreams in tatters. Millions live on the poverty line. The country has neither the confidence of investors abroad nor self-confidence at home. Life is a struggle, and there seems little prospect it will improve soon...
...similar fate awaits the Limbertwig apple, the red abalone and the Southern field pea, but their plight, happily, has not gone unnoticed. They are among 15 American products selected to enter the Ark of Taste, an endangered-species list of edibles established by Slow Food, an organization dedicated to returning joy to the table by shunning mass-manufactured products and promoting food awareness. The Ark spotlights these endangered products, not so people will avoid them but rather so more will consume them. Already this gourmet prod to the marketplace has helped revive such delicacies as Bagoss cheese, made from...
...know so much in this first chapter--and not because of the prerelease hype. We know that plucky Anakin will grow up to be Darth Vader, so the crepe of Fate hangs over his ascendancy. We are meant to root for the boy when he finds himself in a plane cockpit during the climactic battle (he could be a kid sneaking a drive in his dad's Lamborghini), yet we know that the budding hero will later be a super-villain, as if Aladdin were to grow up to be Jafar...