Word: fatefulness
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...fight again. But to what end? “Ernie rose, and when the bus roared into the depot he was standing at the head of the aisle. He came lightly down the metal steps into balmy air and diesel fumes, and feeling in himself the potent allegiance of fate, he pushed open the door to the lobby, where unkempt sleepers slumped upright on the benches.” The novel, like the film, seems to end too soon: Munger, for the reader, is caught in a state of uncertainty. Whether it’s the purgatory of domesticity...
...most straightforward piece of Americana in a decade. There are several highlights here, but none is quite so incandescent as the elegiac “One Wing,” where Tweedy accompanies a graceful melody with wistful lyrics: “I always knew this would be our fate / This is what happens when we separate / This is what happens to all dead weight, eventually.” Like Joe Strummer, Tweedy has always been able to coax remarkable amounts of empathy and emotion out of his one-octave range, and his subtle vocal gifts shine throughout this album...
...from proving that al-Megrahi's fate was determined solely by the Scottish judicial system that imprisoned him - as politicians in Westminster and Edinburgh have vigorously asserted - or that compassion alone dictated the Libyan's release, the documents suggest a process every bit as murky as conspiracy theorists might have imagined. While the British government made a public show of neutrality on the issue, saying any change in al-Megrahi's status was a matter for Scotland, it turns out that a British minister once gave assurances to Libya that neither Prime Minister Gordon Brown nor his Foreign Secretary, David...
...late for Semenya. "She should not let them take away her medal," Soundarajan says, or allow one test to determine her fate. "She is a woman and that's it, full stop," Soundarajan says. "A gender test cannot take away from...
...another drama is developing behind the scenes. Some of Magna's biggest customers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Chrysler and Volkswagen, may decide to move future contracts with Magna to suppliers who are not in the business of selling cars. (Read "Merkel Saves Opel from GM's Fate...