Word: fates
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Conventional wisdom once held that a terror attack on Israeli civilians on a day when diplomats were meeting to discuss the fate of the Middle East was a deliberate attempt by extremists to disrupt the peace process. That theory may no longer apply...
...where most of the American military action is now concentrated and where U.S. propaganda has to contend with an overheated rumor mill in the teahouses and bazaars. Inevitably, Karzai is linked to America's mistakes. "In the eyes of ordinary Afghans," says a senior U.N. official, "this government's fate is intertwined with the American performance." Afghan exile Hamid, a Pashtun now in Quetta, Pakistan, says of Karzai, "He is nothing. Just the son of George W. Bush." Yusuf Hassan, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), remarks, "There's a sense down there, rightly or wrongly...
...must support the psychopath. There is deeper anguish for the senior Sullivan. It is not just that his wife and younger boy have been killed; it is that all the codes by which he has lived have been violated. These simple souls are driven by a blind and brutal fate; we know from the outset that they are as doomed as Oedipus...
...launched with a whole new set of rules for managing the progress and viability of the continent. While the OAU was formed to fight colonialism, apartheid and foreign interference, the A.U. will concentrate on human rights, democracy, good governance and development. But will the new organization suffer the same fate as its predecessor? The OAU sought merely to manage Africa's conflicts and crises. Instead, they have to be resolved - "and I do mean resolved," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told heads of state and other representatives of the OAU's 53 members gathered for the changeover in the South...
...keep the party going. But the performance of the market this week suggests that many investors may be questioning why they went along for the ride in the first place. And now the leaders of corporate and political America wriggle uncomfortably with the reality that their fate may be in the hands of the very investors some of them deceived...