Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar case in Shreveport, Louisiana, went against the abstinence-only movement when a district judge ruled that a prochastity text called "Sex Respect" was biased and inaccurate and ordered it pulled from the Caddo Parish junior high schools. The court is scheduled to rule this week on the fate of the abstinence-only text still being used in the high schools...
...whole truth may never be known, but more than a few Administration officials blame the top dog. What's happened seems simple: Clinton believes his political fate won't hinge on Bosnia -- unless he forces a military confrontation that could lead to the introduction of ground troops, an escalation that could quickly produce TV pictures of dead Americans rather than dead Bosnians. "If we go in and things go bad," concedes a Clinton aide, "then everything at home will stop as the world watches a messy ground war. Besides, we may get lucky. The Serbs may conclude they've grabbed...
...Jason Scott Lee's performance, and the sweet spunkiness of Lauren Holly as the all-American coed Bruce marries in college. Part of it derives from the go-ahead conviction of Rob Cohen's direction. He foreshadows his hero's early death by having his dreams haunted by fate (giddily yet scarily represented as a warrior figure out of China's ancient past) and proposes that Lee ran so hard, so fast in an attempt to outdistance this grim stalker. It's an incautious conceit, and some of its effectiveness may derive from the recent, equally sudden, equally premature death...
...turned out, she found her faith -- and her fate -- much closer. At a Bible-study class she met a man named Paul Fatta. He was somewhat controversial; he claimed that the Adventists got some of the Bible wrong. But, says Kathy's mother Isabel, who is in her 40s, "Paul was a nice guy, very caring, and seemed to be smart. I met his mama." Husband Guillermo looks at his hands. "This Paul Fatta is alive," he says. "The FBI is looking...
Clinton is not stupid. He knows the dangers of the course he has taken. Why is he tempting fate...