Word: fates
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...actually stands for, and that's not at all evident. Posted on her website are two long chapters about her political beliefs; the one on the economy is a 64-page diatribe against "fairy tales told by a globalized hyperclass whose destiny has nothing to do with the fate of ordinary mortals," and which gripes about "the victory of capital over labor." That's the sort of old-left ideology Blair cast out years ago. The pity is that France doesn't need a full-scale Thatcherite revolution to get it back on track. The conditions in the country...
...reads: ‘You will f**k Rannveig the Red. It will be bigger than a man’s pr*ck and smaller than a horse’s pr*ck.’ There can be little doubt but that one of the individuals whose fate was conjured on this charm—its 2nd person ‘you’—believed the inscription capable of directing the future (and especially the object of the owner’s lust).... Let me close with another runic charm, perhaps more appropriate to Halloween, this...
...Still, while that may be settled, Skilling doesn't think his fate is. The former Enron CEO told Judge Lake that he is innocent and plans to appeal his case. Lay's lead criminal attorney thinks Skilling has a good chance. "This case is going to be reversed," Ramsey said at the courthouse."The Fifth Circuit has bounced back or modified virtually every Enron-related conviction." Which means that even after the issue of money is put to rest, the Enron case...
...LITTLE LYING MAKES SUCH SOCIETY TOLERABLE. At what point does 'a little' become 'too much'? The nervous boy who cried 'Wolf!' in the admonitory tale told one lie too many and was eaten alive. The irony of this denouement, of course, is that when the boy met his fate, he was, at last, hollering the truth. This story demonstrates the creation of what is sometimes, and euphemistically, called 'a climate of mistrust.' (Translation: Everybody's lying.)" Read more at timearchive.com...
Paradoxically, the writer and her subject were doomed to the same fate: Anna became Chechnya. In the outskirts of the public sphere, silence still reigns autocratic and unchallenged...