Word: fates
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...kind that Israel visited upon Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. What would happen next? Somehow or other, in all likelihood, others would seek to contain Iran, in the way that the Soviet Union was contained during the cold war. But if that was to be the fate of Iran, who would do the containing? To ask the question is to answer it. "There is an assumption," says Michael Mandelbaum, of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S., "that if the Iranians got the bomb, Uncle Sam would contain them." There are certain...
...comely Russian Countess (Natasha Richardson), he finds his muse and the film finds its title. The Russian Countess Sofia Belinsky, booted from her woe-begotten homeland, is a high-society call girl, who reluctantly assumes the profession to prevent her young daughter Katya from succumbing to the same fate. Sofia is a tragic heroine and Richardson is absolutely luminous in the role, both mesmerizingly beautiful and heartbreakingly pitiable. Fiennes is equally heartrending as a man looking for redemption in a world he can’t see. The British actor has a fine American accent and his captivating facial expressions...
...School; high-powered Washington jobs; 15 years of distinguished service on the federal bench. But for Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito, a lifetime's work has boiled down to one public performance this week on Capitol Hill. For months now, Senators from both parties have said Alito's fate hangs not on his record, but on how he does in the Judiciary Committee hearings that opened Monday at noon in the Hart Senate office building. Democrats have mined Alito's writings and come up with what they say is strong evidence of someone outside the mainstream-a supporter...
...mine collapse is horrifying for the opposite reason: we see nothing and hear nothing. A group of men is either alive or dead and?in this age of GPS locators, instant messaging and Google Earth?thousands of feet of antediluvian rock stand between us and knowing their fate...
...Such are the pleasures animating this big-bellied, bushy-bearded tale of 9th century England. Our hero is Uhtred, a good-hearted lout with a pleasantly sour disposition; he's like a 9th century Han Solo. As an English nobleman who was raised by the invading Danes but whose fate is to fight against them (with his deadly sword Serpent-Breath!), he endows the book with an unexpectedly complex, thoughtful soul...