Word: fates
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Freshmen, by the time you read this you probably already know your fate. And if you don’t know yet, we’ll tell you right now: it sucks. Unless the letter you received this morning informing you of your housing assignment reads “Dudley Coop” there’s a 90 percent chance you’ll spend the next three years looking at hardcore internet porn. If it does read “Dudley Coop,” then there’s a 90 percent chance you?...
...seasons. We would check it out, but don’t have the five bucks for a cab. Freshmen, your future—whether in the form of a fist of arrows, three bunnies, or a tree—awaits. Run to your new house and meet some upperclassmen! Fate has spoken; all that’s left is for you to get in touch with your inner artist, your inner jock, or the piece of the Radcliffe Quadrangle that?...
...real fans understand deep down that their team and its fate are simultaneously both important and meaningless. It's this contradiction that is part of the agony, the ecstasy, the religious-like joy of being a fan. The leap of faith in unison with thousands of others that what you're all watching matters profoundly. Healthy sports lovers care passionately not because they truly think sport is a matter of life and death, but despite the fact they know it's not. When fanaticism starts hurting people, killing them, even, that contradiction vanishes and so does...
Attorneygate is getting stickier and stickier. All of Washington is now anxiously awaiting the release of documents later today that could well determine the fate of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Meanwhile, the specifics of one firing, that of San Diego Prosecutor Carol Lam, is getting curioser and curioser...
...Despite the hue and cry from Democrats, it will ultimately be Republicans who determine Gonzales's fate. Never popular with Congress, Gonzales may have to rely largely on the White House for support as Congressional investigations proceed. For the time being, President Bush is sticking by his old friend from Texas. But that could change if G.O.P. support for Gonzales slips further among Republicans in the event of new revelations surrounding the firings. Arlen Specter, the top G.O.P. figure on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has already suggested that Gonzales may be on his way out, and doubts about the Attorney...