Word: fatefulness
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Racist societies make race into a hard fate. So people who are the progeny of two races become curiosities not because they are particularly interesting, but because they are so unexpected. This must be an old and tiresome vulnerability in Barack Obama's life (as it is in mine), and all the more so because he has chosen a public life. One senses that his first book, Dreams from My Father, was meant to diffuse some of this vulnerability. In it he does not merely own up to his interracial background as if to a past indiscretion; he candidly explores...
Bernard Amadei is the kind of engineer who believes in fate, and here's why. In 1997 he needed to have some landscaping done at his home near the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has worked as a professor of civil engineering for more than 20 years. He picked a company out of the Yellow Pages, called, and three Mayan Indians from Belize appeared on his doorstep. Amadei, 53, an amiable Frenchman who is quick to connect, listened as the men told him of the poverty back in their home village of San Pablo. He stayed in touch...
...crowds he had drawn, the freshman Senator from Illinois with a message of conciliation and righteousness had seemed for most of the year to be unable - unwilling, actually - to put much of a dent in Hillary Clinton's trajectory of preordination and inevitability. He appeared destined for the same fate that had met a long line of Democratic insurgents - Gary Hart, Paul Tsongas, Bill Bradley and Howard Dean among them - whose promises of a new kind of politics had briefly enjoyed a vogue, only to be crushed into dust by a front-runner who was using the standard playbook...
...been arrested on visits to Tehran. One such academic, Haleh Esfandiari, on a visit to her elderly mother, was detained for eight months and charged with crimes against “national security.” The student told me he feared the same fate and worried about what would become of his family if he ever expressed his views about Iran’s theocratic regime...
...trade deal is still not an easy sell. The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement was signed by President Bush a year ago this month with much fanfare, but its fate was mixed with uncertainty as it headed for Congress for ratification. The Democrats had just taken the House in mid-term elections and it was unclear then how the new political climate in Washington would affect the trade deal...