Word: fatefulness
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...crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where Romney had helped launch his campaign in 2007, called out in despair. But the anguish of activists could not change Romney's fate. He had been bested in nearly every major contest he had entered, save the states he had once called home, Michigan, Utah and Massachusetts. The delegate count made victory nearly impossible. "You guys are great," Romney told the crowd, as people called...
Baking a tarte tatin seemed an ambitious task for a newbie cook, but with the inclement weather outside and an orchard's worth of ripe fruit and other requisite ingredients in the pantry, I decided to tempt fate. But, as is typical with my ventures in the kitchen, things quickly got out of hand. I was about to Google the solution to my cooking dilemma, until a response to a status update on my Facebook profile - which read "Bill is cooking tarte tatin" - pre-empted that move and caused a dramatic paradigm shift in my view of the Internet...
...race and gender should have no part of the campaign, and stuck to that attitude in political debates. Clinton and Obama recognized this principle: that in the race for the nomination as in the general election, the stakes of identity and solidarity should not overshadow the debate on the fate of the nation. The presidential election should not become, nor be portrayed as, a referendum on American tolerance—regardless of how the press spins...
...resigned myself to the hands of University Health Services and braced for a fate of pills and extensive counseling. Much to my surprise, my treatment was prescribed in the form of a phototherapy lamp...
...symbolic: Mitt Romney, the often-hyped Massachusetts governor turned presidential candidate, was watching the also-hyped New England Patriots as they approached the apparent verge of Super Bowl victory Sunday, just two days before the biggest election of Romney's life, Super Tuesday, when 21 states would shape the fate of his White House dreams...