Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disastrous fate of her comically ill-conceived health care reform crusade sent her approval ratings into the gutter. Her much publicized role in the callous firings of the civil servants in the White House Travel Office didn't help. Halfway through President Clinton's first term, it seemed that Hillary might finally stop meddling where she didn't belong. She retreated from the spotlight, changed her haircut and wrote a book about children and villages. For a while, she was fairly benign...
Sarah Myers '02 ably plays Paquette, the philandering maid who pops up, smiling and preening, wherever Candide travels. The Old Lady, played by Heidi Brown '99, is also quite funny as she sings about her sad fate and her only one buttock, but occasionally her affected accent obscures her lines. In "Easily Assimilated," Brown shines as she dances and whirls--apparently, missing one buttock does not prevent one from dancing well...
...these protests happened in February 1999, and the targets of students' outrage are the sweatshops in Asia and Central America where the vast majority of university-licensed clothing is manufactured. Today, administrators from all the schools of the Ivy League will be meeting to decide the fate of those sweatshops and their abused workers...
...craft an unimpeachable legacy in the upcoming months, Clinton is only fooling himself yet again. He has too little time to leave any great achievements, and assuming he doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize (he was nominated for it this week), he had might as well accept his fate and put all his might into getting Al Gore '69 into the White House and Hillary into the Senate...
...McDermott is right, and you and I represent the commingling of just one of the so many millions with just one more. Who cares? If we have commingled by the dumbest luck, I'll take it. Anyway, how does anyone know that luck isn't another name for fate, that the arbitrary isn't inevitable, and that the appearance of chance and happenstance aren't simply heaven's way of amusing itself? As far as I'm concerned, babe, "I'm content./ The angels must have sent you,/and they meant you just...