Word: fatefulness
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Silda Wall Spitzer was a very successful corporate lawyer before giving it up in 2006 to support her husband’s political ambitions. After relinquishing her personal achievements and hitching her fate to her husband’s in office, Mrs. Spitzer suffered a particular injustice when the former governor’s indiscretion was revealed. But because of this very investment in her marriage, divorce would accomplish nothing; indeed, it would only further hurt her and their family...
...party and the MDC clashed after MDC supporters distributed flyers urging people to stay away from work. The MDC also said one of its campaign workers had been beaten to death in a rural stronghold of the ruling party. The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists also expressed concern over the fate of journalist Frank Chikoore, 26, who was taken by police at his home in Harare...
...fact is that Harvard’s fate no longer lies in its own hands, and for a playoff berth to happen Dartmouth would have to suffer a breakdown of epic proportions while second and third place Yale and Brown essentially toiled in mediocrity for the rest of the year...
TIME: It's 10 days since the vote, and there are all sorts of rumors as to the direction of Zimbabwe, the intentions of Mugabe and the fate of the M.D.C. How do you see the situation? TSVANGIRAI: We are planning to use our political influence in the region to put pressure on Mugabe to concede defeat. He is trying to be defiant. The military leaders in the establishment are trying to subvert the will of the people. This is, in a sense, a de facto military coup. They have rolled out military forces across the whole country, to prepare...
...long-time Ba'ath Party member; he is not particularly fond of his Shi'ite countrymen. He claims he and his son were kidnapped by a Shi'ite militia and tortured for over a year at the Jadiriya prison in Baghdad, and that he does not know the fate of his son. "It's a tragedy," says the teary-eyed Sammaree, accusing the Shi'ites of turning his country into a tool of Iran...