Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should Trachsel fear Zachary's fate--footnote to a broken record--maybe he could console himself with a less rare, but no less precious piece of history. Photographer Crimson I LOVE YOU, MAC:MARK MCGWIRE and SAMMY SOSA share a moment...
Marc Klaas of Sausalito, Calif., who became an activist against child molesters after his daughter Polly was kidnapped and killed, spoke at the Berkeley protest. "Fate gave David Cash the opportunity to be heroic, and he turned his back on that opportunity," Klaas declared. "He was in the singular position of being able to save a seven-year-old child, and he chose to do nothing. For that, he will have to answer to his own withered soul forever...
...found a soulmate in Steve Prefontaine. In an article he once wrote, Towne made an implicit analogy between writing and running. Both involve a rebellious effort to exceed the limits God places on your talent; both demand, as you settle into the starting blocks, an acceptance of whatever fate he whimsically decrees. One hopes that Without Limits, seemingly boxed in at the start, breaks free and scores an upset that is, yes, "purifying and thrilling" for the uncompromising spirit it sweetly celebrates...
...calumny: mostly financial scandals for Grant, mostly Monica for Clinton. For both, the accusations were constant, painful and irrelevant to a majority of the public. Grant remained the nation's most popular politician even postscandal. Ditto Clinton. But today Grant is considered an utter failure. Can Clinton avoid that fate? "He's probably going to be driving himself even more, because he will want more than ever for history not to carry this as the headline," says Clinton's former chief of staff Leon Panetta. Some of the President's options...
...Fate, that impish old bitch, has thrown the smart one and the cute one in bed together for the first time. So far, they have been just friends, but now what? The cute one, topless and asleep, rolls over against the smart one, who suddenly dares to hope and grazes his love object with his fingers. A caress leads to a kiss--and then the cutie pie bolts up awake. Comedy! Drama! Horror! And, since the characters are both men, in a scene that stirs a smiling shudder of recognition in viewers straight and gay: Breakthrough...