Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liar's courage aside, certain couples do seem destined. It is difficult to imagine substitute partners for Fred and Ginger, Rhett and Scarlett, Roy and Dale. Would a benevolent fate have tossed together George and Dale? Roy and Gracie? I have a hard time picturing Bonnie and Ozzie. There's a wizened couple who travel in New York semi-literary circles who are both so poisonous, it is impossible to believe the gods would have allowed them to infect two others...
After almost a year of speculation, it seems as if the long-awaited announcement of Radcliffe's fate--probably that the college will assume a new role as an allied institution of Harvard--is coming. Maybe...
...seems reason to hope that the outcome will be a good one. Radcliffe looks to be on the verge of becoming an affiliated institution, focusing on its world-renowned research into women's issues and officially ceding all responsibility for undergraduates to Harvard. The nitty-gritty details over the fate of Radcliffe's endowment and valuable Cambridge property seem to be the final but significant sticking points in the negotiations...
...programs and people who serve these students are not lost in the shuffle of reorganization. Both colleges would do well to depart from the closed-mouth tactics of the last year and present Radcliffe's new status in a public forum, answering questions from students and alumnae about the fate of individual programs...
...years, met in eighth grade at a summer program for gifted youth. Even though the program was only a week long, they hit it off and wound up exchanging handwritten letters the rest of the summer, but eventually fell out of touch. Three years later, by some trick of fate, they showed up for the same spring break tour of Harvard...