Word: fates
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College students are expected to vote in record numbers today in a presidential election that will determine the fate of several key issues affecting higher education—from stem cell research in university laboratories to military recruiting on college campuses and affirmative action in university admissions...
Kramer found it no surprise, then, that Mark’s club had met a similar fate...
...their relationships and their exuberance for life. Two-thirds of the 227 underwent SEGT; the rest received relaxation therapy. While the results are not yet ready for release, they "indicate there are some significant benefits from SEGT," says project coordinator Brenda Grabsch. The women learned to mourn their fate, then "rise above these feelings to discover humor and creativity," says former Thursday Girls therapist David Kissane, now chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. By showing the women how to approach dying with courage and how "to say goodbye...
Then—although we had papers to write and although none of us had what you could call a vested interest in the fate of the Red Sox—we wandered out into Harvard Square. En route, we saw a police car zooming along Mt. Auburn St., its megaphone on. “The Red Sox are going to the World Series!” the policeman inside yelled over and over again, his voice amplified and distorted. When we got to Mass. Ave., we followed the crowds streaming into Harvard Yard; drunken undergraduates were massed around...
...what-do-we-do-now mood that characterizes many of our Friday and Saturday night peregrinations had pervaded the Yard and the Square. A shared elation had demanded outlet, but the outlet had proved unsatisfying. (At least it had lacked the violence to prove dangerous; the fate of the poor Emerson student killed by Boston policemen’s “non-lethal weapons” demonstrates the danger of rowdier celebrations...