Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...destruction of a public man holds a terrible fascination. One watches transfixed, yet ashamed, as personal dignity gives way to political desperation and hard-won respect is replaced by ribald laughter. It is an ugly spectacle, part Greek tragedy and part game-show television. Character becomes fate as hubris is defined anew. Yet the rituals of humiliation are straight Marshall McLuhan; the medium is the message as the cornered politician endures the prescribed sequence of televised statements, beginning with a tight-lipped acknowledgment of errors in judgment and ending with defiant surrender. So the political process is purified yet again...
...shocking twist of fate, the front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination ends a campaign that disintegrated almost overnight amid charges of adultery, hypocrisy and gross recklessness. While the stunning collapse of Gary Hart leaves the party without a clear- cut favorite in the '88 race for the White House, it poses a larger question for voters and the press: When is an inquiry into a politician' s private behavior legitimate, and when is it an unfair intrusion that says nothing about his qualifications for public office? -- One of the central figures in the underground sale...
...individual fate of one or another Nazi seems to me beside the point," she said. "What interests me is the memory of history...
Commercial banks fight investment firms over the 1933 Glass- Steagall Act, as old- fashioned bank lending loses out to Wall Street' s creative financial techniques. In the balance may be the fate of the $2.7 trillion banking industry. -- The U. S. and Japan scramble to defuse trade tensions. -- Meet George Soros, Wall Street' s most successful investor...
...from the Soviet Union took custody of him there and shipped him to the Estonian capital of Tallinn. Linnas was convicted in absentia and sentenced to death 25 years ago for running a Nazi death camp in Estonia during World War II. And now he had to face his fate...