Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reality has often been less inspiring -- in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, in the Munich beset by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, in the tit-for-tat cold war boycotts of 1980 and 1984, not to mention the myriad smaller moments when political bitterness or personal dishonor or random fate blemished the panorama of joyful striving. But whatever the misdeeds and mischances, the myth continually reasserts itself and endures. So it is always a surprise when the Olympics fall short of what the world imagines, a respite from the ordeals of daily headlines and household heartbreak...
...believe in justice should cheer Harding's eleventh-hour lawsuit, which has taken her fate out of the hasty hands of the star-chamber U.S.O.C. and put it into the slow-as-molasses legal system with all its constitutional safeguards. This is a rare moment when the interests of the low-road entertainment mongers and the sticklers for due process coincide. Otherwise, the ending would have to play out in parallel universes -- Kerrigan at Lillehammer, on Saturday Night Live and in Reebok ads; Harding on Inside Edition, the carpet of the .S.O.C. and in No Excuses jeans ads. Worse...
...locate apostates who think they've found safety in the witness- protection program. But the Mafia don (a wildly miscast Roy Scheider) has given Jack a sort of promotion: he's entrusted with actually putting the hit on Mona, who, naturally, deploys all her sexual cunning to evade her fate...
Even so, the President looked uncomfortable doing it. The outstanding issue between the U.S. and Vietnam is one that can still turn out to be a land mine for this war-era draft avoider: the final disposition of American servicemen whose fate in battle remains unresolved. In his announcement Clinton deferred elaborately to the families of those missing in action, stressing that he was "absolutely convinced" that ending the embargo would best serve their interests...
Valentine's Day sucks and everybody knows it. Just ask St. Valentine. He died, and now we gorge in his honor. What a fate...