Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jessica's fate has stirred up a lot of nervousness. "We're getting calls from ! parents whose adoptions were in place a long time ago," says Susan Freivalds, executive director of Adoptive Families of America, a support group based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They say they've always "felt kind of funny" about their paperwork. Was the birth mother lying when she said she couldn't locate the father? Why did she refuse to name him? "This is a frightening issue for adoptive parents," says Freivalds. "How can you be sure you've done everything right...
...because commercial producers fear that his learned , tragicomedies demand too much of audiences intellectually and indulge them too little emotionally. Stoppard's Hapgood mingled a spy story, a love story, games of mistaken identity and reflections on physics, and has never had a major U.S. production. The same fate may well await his new play, although it is by far the best from any British writer in years...
...disembarked in Port-au-Prince. He has not been heard from since. For the past year, Miguel has paid radio stations to broadcast appeals for anyone who might know what happened to his brother. "I believe he is dead," he confesses. Local villagers are more certain of Ossou's fate. "He was beaten to death by police," they whisper...
...almost certain to nominate Appeals Court Judge Stephen Breyer. Clinton's personal chemistry with the candidates -- he was cool to Breyer after they met but responded well to Ginsburg -- seemed to weigh heavily in his decision. Although Breyer told the Administration about the problem weeks before, his fate was sealed by news reports that he had neglected to pay Social Security taxes for a domestic servant...
...women for so long -- the sense that it was one thing to be the smartest student in the class but another to have that undefinable something men insist it takes to be a top-notch lawyer. She did not think her early success was a fluke nor exclusion her fate, and this most unlikely of firebrands took one of the few clerkships offered, for a district court judge in New York. She went on to teach at Rutgers while litigating sex-discrimination cases in her spare time...