Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People Like That," while heart-wrenching and disturbing to read, is a powerful reminder of the value of life, the inscrutability of fate and the last bastion of human resource: hope. It counterbalances the bitter, estranged characters of the other stories with its forced entrance into the horror that can sometimes be real life. The Husband (each character is given not a name, but a title: the Mother, the Husband, the Baby, the Doctor) says to the Mother: "You know, this is the kind of thing you've always written about," to which she responds, "You are really something...
...devotion to shorts culture, the hard core will persevere. Total fanatics like Averell and Denham will bare souls and legs to demonstrate their unfailing allegiance to the categorical superiority of shorts over pants. Keep in mind, however, that Mother Nature rules almighty and often she has one word for fate-tempters: frostbite...
...staff's suggestion that a referendum to decide the fate of the Undergraduate Council's windfall is hasty and unsound. The plan risks a reckless use of the money and undermines the legitimacy of an ad hoc committee created by the council to consider various options. We fear a referendum will be biased and that a better outcome will come from more careful deliberation...
...share" as Microsoft's "No. 1 mission," Gates shot back: "We didn't mean browser share, we meant browser usage." Bill Clinton would be proud. Clinton, of course, didn't have to face a single judge with arbitrary power. Thomas Penfield Jackson, the man who will determine Microsoft's fate, was spotted chuckling and shaking his head as Gates tied himself in knots trying not to use the word "Netscape." It doesn't look good for the defendants -? and there are still 19 hours of the Gates tape left...
...Harvard field hockey team learned its postseason fate yesterday when the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) announced selections for its postseason tournament...