Word: fates
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...Congress debates the fate of key provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the legislation continues to serve as a flashpoint for criticism of the Bush Administration. Yet, when opposition groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union make accusations that the act threatens or tramples our cherished First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, they stoop to the level of misinformation and fear-mongering that they claim their opponents inhabit. In reality, the statute sensibly closes loopholes that tied the hands of counter-terrorism agencies in the pre-9/11 world. One need not support Bush nor his anti-terror policies...
Whatever that show's fate, Broadway ticket buyers will have to depend a while longer on such holdovers as A Chorus Line, which opened in 1975, 42nd Street (1980), Dreamgirls (1981), Cats (1982), La Cage aux Folles (1983), and last year's The Tap Dance Kid and Sunday in the Park with George...
...seven matches in two weeks, some of which are bound to be played on ill-kempt outer courts, some of which are bound to be interrupted by rain or darkness. The physically tireless have the edge in these circumstances. And so do those who can avoid dank brooding on fate's fickleness...
There is seemingly no end to the nonfiction works on this subject. Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth seized broad public attention in 1982 and opened the way to hundreds of books a year since then on arms control, arms negotiations, plans for peace, manuals on how to survive nuclear catastrophes. In the past two or three years, an entire intellectual community has been born around the Bomb, a portable Algonquin Round Table (minus the wit) made up of such people as McGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, Harold Brown, Robert McNamara and several retired military leaders, many of whom...
...this summer's Call to Glory. Like ABC's critically applauded family drama, introduced last August, Hometown is hoping to build an audience during the last weeks of summer; a spot is already reserved for it on the fall schedule. The trick will be to avoid the fate of Call to Glory, which started strongly but gradually withered under the fall competition. Like any other series looking to survive beyond the summer, Hometown must prove it is a show for all seasons. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles