Word: fates
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...result? The so-called terrorists are now the benign rulers and are making a success of the country and race relations. William Gould Oudtshoorn, South Africa Crossing out al-Zarqawi's face in blood red sent a strong message. He was an embodiment of evil who deserved his fate, and your graphic statement was right on the money. Still, I bet that you received lots of protests from softhearted readers decrying the image. Paul G. Rees Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Profiting from Time Off I enjoyed Po Bronson's essay on how Americans are unable to relax [June...
...worked against the interests of Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.) More than a dozen Omars interviewed by TIME say that when they produce identification cards bearing their name, they regularly endure harassment by Shi'ite policemen and government officials. Others have met a more gruesome fate. In a single incident last earlier this year, the bodies of 14 Omars were found in a Baghdad garbage dump. They had all been killed with a single bullet to the head, and their ID cards were placed carefully on their chests. It has, says Saleh Mutlak, a prominent Sunni...
...Marshall Plan for African development--and bring allies on board for the ride. Of course, the longing for a foreign policy legacy is common to all lame-duck Presidents; more often than not, such quests have ended in disappointment. Bush may still be able to avoid that fate, but he's running out of time...
...After investing hundreds of hours of studying, thousands of dollars in tutors and counselors, and months of meticulous preparation, many of the world’s most talented high school seniors resign their fate to the judgments of an anonymous group of graders sitting on the first floor of Byerly Hall, home to Harvard College’s admissions office...
...many girls saw this 1948 English musical melodrama and, no matter what the heroine's fate, decided to put on ballet slippers? Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's fevered parable of ballet's uneasy kinship of music and dance turned an art-business into a battlefield of egos, lusts and near demonic possessiveness. It established Anton Walbrook as the Svengali of his day and made a star of Moira Shearer...