Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joyrides in his trainer's van, came third. All around, it was a happy day for practically everyone but the 1-2 favorites Snow Chief and Badger Land, who finished eleventh and fifth. By the Dosage Index, a perplexing pedigree calibrator much under discussion these days, Snow Chief's fate had been foretold. But the betting public ignored the arithmetic and forgot the old man. Sentimentalists collected $37.40 for $2 on Willie...
Tumanov's sweaty, mumbling performance drew open disbelief and derision from the more than 100 Western reporters who had been summoned to the carefully scripted propaganda show. Tumanov is the fourth "redefector" to show up in Moscow in the past two years. His fate is uncertain. He is already under a death sentence stemming from his original defection. Asked last week whether he expected to be punished for his 20 years of anti-Soviet activities, he chose not to comment...
Here Dancer begins to emerge not just as Fate's pitiful victim, but as a man with free choice who has chosen, not without some misgivings, to assume a certain kind of lifestyle...
Matt Murdock (the blind lawyer who uses his secret "radar sense" to prowl the rooftops as DD) became a real character, a pathological vigilante with a conscience. Miller was questioning the superhero, the great convention of the comic book form: the citizen, gifted by fate, who selflessly puts on longjohns to fight evil. At least the villains use their laser-beam eyes for material gain--what do the heroes...
Seymour started by killing his undergraduate business studies. "That was the riskiest step," concedes Provost Daniel DeNicola, "since one-third of the students were majoring in business." Communications studies suffered the same fate. Concurrently, Rollins revived its classics programs--Latin, Greek, languages, literature--and built a well-stocked new library. Results have been fast and favorable. Applications, despite an upcoming tuition of $8,591, have reached a 5-to-1 ratio for every freshman spot, while enrollment has been held to 1,370. And Rollins' still well-tanned but much more serious graduates have come into demand: last year every...