Word: fates
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Nancy Gibbs' report "Seven Astronauts, One Fate," poignantly captured the spirit of adventure of those brave travelers who lost their lives on the space shuttle Columbia doing what they loved best [COVER STORIES, Feb. 10]. May their sacrifice serve as a reminder that this country was pioneered by many brave explorers who had a zeal for looking beyond the horizon and the courage to probe the unknown. STEVE BUTLER Wakefield, Mass...
...political fate of Miguel Estrada, nominated by President Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals, is currently very much in question, thanks to a filibuster by increasingly immovable Senate Democrats, who refuse to allow Estrada's name to come up for a vote, in part because the White House will not release key documents they believe will reveal Estrada's right-wing activism. The would-be judge has not betrayed much of anything in the course of his controversial nomination hearings; Democrats say Estrada, a 42-year-old lawyer, lacks the necessary experience and record to assume the lifelong post...
Foreign media titans aren't the only programmers that have creative differences with China's television regulators. Consider the fate of Hunan Media Group, once China's funkiest broadcaster. In the 1990s this studio in central Hunan province took advantage of a rule allowing provincial broadcasters to deliver one channel nationally across cable networks. Not content to just retransmit the local crop report, Hunan came up with a slate of all-new programs geared to popular (read: low-brow) tastes. Its leading show, Happy Camper, let celebrities and ordinary folk embarrass themselves by, for instance, dangling from 20-meter cords...
...Crimson showed plenty of heart during its rally against the Tigers, making a comeback that it could never muster against an unyielding Quaker team on Friday. In both games, however, the Crimson’s fate was the same, as its double-digit deficits proved insurmountable...
...Eastern nations, many of which are already tinderboxes of bad governance and extremism. U.S. attempts to form a stable government in Iraq would be opposed by militants from all sides, making the country a pawn in the showdown between western liberalism and Islamic extremism—hardly a desirable fate for the Iraqi people...