Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challenged India's political conservatives. Unlike Fire, which directly criticizes India's societal hypocrisy, Earth shifts a fair amount of the blame onto the ignorance of the paternalistic British imperialists, who ended up causing one of the 20th century's bloodiest ethnic wars in their attempt to control the fate of the Indian people and their government. Before the partition takes place, Lenny, despite being forced by polio to wear a leg brace, enjoys a happy childhood playing under the care of her nanny Shanta (Nandita Das). Shanta is a beautiful young Hindu woman who attracts suitors from all three...
Today, janitors face these same conditions and they risk meeting the same fate as the guards. Anyone who has spoken to janitors recently can attest to the fact that they are as demoralized as our guards last spring, just before the University broke their union and drove them out of our community. Janitors who have worked in our houses for as many as 20 years have told us that their wages have become so inadequate and their treatment so disrespectful that if Harvard offered them buy-out packages, they would take them...
...reasonable to compare the fate of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919-1920 with that of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1999, as did Shawn P. Saler '03 (Opinion, Oct. 18). But the implications of such a comparsion are not necessarily what Saler makes them...
...have no enthusiasm for. What you're asking is that they believe in something they don't find wholly believable, believe in it because the belief itself if not its object would be good. Fair enough. Only leave them the irony they'll need to accept their fate as conscript crusaders...
Kids and retailers of all ages will fondly remember Sheriff Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) and his battery-powered pal Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), who together saved a lot of other toys from a fate worse than yard sales. This time hero Woody is the victim--kidnapped by Al to complete a set of classic '50s toys. Turns out Woody, or the marionette that inspired him, was once famous. He starred in his own TV show. He generated spin-off merchandise like radios, yo-yos, ukuleles. Heck, he was on the cover of TIME...