Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...none of this assistance guaranteed the safety of relatives in Korea. An unknown number wound up in concentration camps or before firing squads. As families in Japan have learned of their fate, Chongryun's hold over its members has loosened. A small but vocal group of former members now openly attacks the organization, despite threats from its hierarchy...
...existence -- though not in reincarnation. They have a complex system of the afterlife as well -- there is a three-tier realm of glory with the highest echelon reserved for believers, the next for well-meaning nonbelievers, the last for the devil and his angels. Adherents worried about the fate of their nonbeliever ancestors can have deceased relatives baptized vicariously. Thus Mormons zealously compile genealogies so all ancestors can eventually be baptized. Meanwhile, males must become lay "priests" and serve as missionaries (currently numbering more than...
Harvard might have figured that Easterns was destined to go the way of the Tigers when the site of the showdown was changed from Ithaca, N.Y. to Princeton's own backyard only weeks before the October 24-26 meet. But, whether believing in the dictates of fate or not, they could have done very little to stop the Princeton machine; the Tigers put in a great team performance to repeat as Eastern champions...
...gusto, the sheer comic wallop, of Pulp Fiction. This 2 1/2-hour tapestry weaves four tales into a meditation about tough guys with too much or too little time on their hands. What do you talk about before a killing? (Fast food in Amsterdam.) How do you escape a fate worse than death? (With luck and honor.) How do you date your gang boss's wife? (Very carefully.) How do you remove those telltale blood stains from the backseat? (Very quickly.) Spinning delirious variations on familiar film noir conventions and pulling career-best performances from < Travolta, Willis, Thurman and especially Jackson...
Here's the latest Clinton plot twist: Can Dan Rostenkowski prod the big health-care bill through his Ways and Means Committee before he's indicted on low-rent financial-irregularities charges? With the fate of the entire presidency allegedly resting on the shoulders of this unlikely hero, one can only note that even Melrose Place pays some obeisance to the notion of ^ plausibility. Still, we all want to see what happens next...