Word: fatefulness
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Good things come to those who wait, or at least, that’s how the saying goes. Luckily for the Harvard men’s basketball team, fate has decided to look kindly upon it after years of pedestrian play against the Killer P’s. Coming off the heels of a remarkable comeback against Princeton, the Crimson (8-18, 3-7 Ivy) capped the weekend by handing Penn (10-16, 5-4 Ivy) a 89-79 defeat, marking the first time since 1987 that the Crimson has successfully swept the two Ivy teams at Lavietes...
...feel like we've never seen before." While most Spirit Award winners are usually little known, Juno is a commercial hit, approaching $130 million at the domestic box office. Wilson, who plays a convenience store clerk in the film, noted that Juno had managed to avoid the obscure fate of "every single other movie we're honoring today...
...dead. Which is to say inutile, incapable of principled gestures, which may or may not make the world a better place, however pleasing they may be to your own ego. Which says nothing about mega-history, the movement of which as the war develops, will determine the fate of these men and the grand, mad scheme they're obliged to serve...
...Today’s music scene is one in which belief in the revolutionary potential of a song is viewed as an anachronistic pipedream and faith in rockstardom as a transcendent force is regarded as both naïve and haplessly nostalgic. This thoroughly postmodern sentiment is both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable being creative knowing that their music will inevitably fall short of the highs reached by a century’s worth of pop music?The title of Toronto band Metric?...
...woman tourism minister who had been photographed hugging her parachute instructor. Still, the government's attack on the madrasah last July was widely condemned. The popularity of President Pervez Musharraf was already on the wane, and the perception that he sent Pakistani troops to kill fellow Muslims sealed his fate. Even though Musharraf, who was elected to a second presidential term in October under dubious circumstances, was not running in Pakistan's Feb. 18 general election, the defeat of his allies in parliament can in some part be attributed to nationwide outrage over his handling of the Red Mosque crisis...