Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contract he signed before his illness to write an updated version of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo--a tale involving a paralyzed protagonist who communicates by blinking. "The gods of literature and neurology decided otherwise," Bauby laments, adding a twist. "To reverse the decrees of fate, I now have in mind a story whose main character is a runner instead of a paralytic. Who knows? It might work...
...Dartboard would like to commend the University Housing Office for their professional handling of the First-Year lottery results. As anxious residents of Thayer Hall waited patiently for word of their randomized fate, a considerate Housing Officer, charged with hand-delivering the envelopes containing the lottery results, saw fit to instead deposit them in a lovely pile in front of the dorm elevator. There the abandoned envelopes sat as the morning wore on and as rising anticipation ate away at the souls of dorm inhabitants...
...says, "Blood is a big expense," and in reality being bad is all fun and games until someone loses an eye--or, in Bugsy's case, a head. After a tiff over Vegas (Bugsy said yes, Lucky said no, and the mafia world was divided forever after over the fate of America's top sleazepost), Luciano had Seigel shot, ending an era of mafia power that only the Corliones could revive. In Puzio's restive family we see all that Lansky and his pals could never capture: the tranquility of a mob network secure in its proficiency, efficiently camouflaging...
...imprisoned. When the U.S. Army closed in on Germany, my father succeeded in escaping, but other family members, along with other prisoners, were shot. You mentioned that 30,000 Jewish refugees were turned away at the Swiss border. An equal number of political refugees must have shared that fate. HELMUT SCHMIDT Orgeval, France...
Julius Caesar had good reason to beware the day he was assassinated in 44 B.C. But despite the oft repeated admonition for the rest of us, history records no special reason to lie low on March 15. In fact, some pretty darn good things have happened on the fateful day. (See the birth of Fabio, 3/15/61.) So as the Ides of March approaches, take a backward glance, seize fate and go forth...