Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parliament used it to describe the financial shenanigans of one Michael de la Pool. The phrase seemed to combine the right measure of breadth and gravity--not just any crimes, but the "high" ones. A quick vote was taken, the phrase was accepted, and now the President's fate rests...
...public and private are utterly fused. It is one thing to engage in a private affair between consenting adults. It is another to have a 22-year-old intern performing oral sex on the President while he talks by phone to a Congressman about the fate of Americans stationed in Bosnia. It is one thing to turn the Lincoln Bedroom into a campaign ATM machine, another to turn the Oval Office into a hot-sheet motel. It is one thing for the President to invoke the cleansing powers of repentance. It is another to suggest that he deserves to serve...
Like Martin Luther King Jr., another civil rights leader with whom Mandela often identifies himself, he was prepared to give his life as an example for the cause. He never rebelled against his fate, accepting prison as a necessary price to fight for what he believed...
...geezer, who promptly confesses that he had his first two wives killed. She flees into a closet, doors spin, and we are transported to the same room 20 years earlier--then 20 years before that. The time-travel gimmick is fun but hardly frivolous: the play explores matters of fate and free will, and the ability of people to control their own destiny. A clever and finally quite moving work...
WASHINGTON: Better book your seat now for the Clinton impeachment hearings. As Congress returns to work Monday, the fate of Ken Starr's referral -- and of the President himself -- lies solely in the hands of Henry Hyde and his House Judiciary Committee. Their task is twofold: Decide how much more of that explosive document to release to a scandal-fatigued public, and ruminate on whether the prickly details warrant an impeachment inquiry. Hyde, however, doesn't need any more ruminating time. The chairman decreed over the weekend that hearings are necessary, but has graciously agreed to "hear from everyone...