Word: fates
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...bringing in troops to help take the "city." The enemy, masked by surrounding buildings and sandbag bunkers, fired on the group. The laser-activated beeper on Hernandez's belt went off, signaling that he had been killed in action; 22 of his 27 fellow platoon members suffered the same fate. All in all, it was a rough day for the Marines. "It was very difficult to find a place to hide," says Hernandez. "If this had been real life, this would have been as far as I'd have gotten...
Several Harvard students expressed concern about the pizzeria’s fate, citing its importance as one of the few late-night food options available...
...long way from answers: we scarcely have a vocabulary for these people. They are truly "survivors," but that word has been largely appropriated for the relatives of dead victims. We could call Genelle and the others "escapees," but they didn't really escape--they just dodged fate. After ground-zero workers unearthed Pasquale's soot-encrusted briefcase a few months ago, the New York police department mailed a letter to his wife Louise saying searchers had found an item that belonged either to her or to the deceased. When Pasquale presented himself at One Police Plaza to pick...
...clerics did not make such an appeal, and the radical plot resulted in failure. The American army--and its allies--did not become mired in Afghanistan, and it was the Taliban that was routed. Al-Qaeda's infrastructure was significantly damaged, even if precious little is known about the fate of bin Laden and his lieutenants or their ability to mount new operations around the globe. The Qaeda threat remains, but beyond the fascination with bin Laden among some Muslim youth who view him as a defiant hero, most of the Muslim world has followed the lead of imams...
...power at its skill positions, there are serious question marks everywhere else. There was irony in the fact that while Rose, Morris and Balestracci were mugging for the camera and fielding interviews left and right Friday, the players who may prove most critical in determining Harvard’s fate this year were literally standing off in the shadows...