Word: fates
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Missing from TIME's list of players who will decide the fate of health care--lawmakers, lobbyists, even Walmart--is a key group: those who work long hours to cure what ails Americans, just so they can spend more time wrestling with insurance companies and dodging trial lawyers. Your list left out the doctors--which is exactly how I've felt for my 14 years of practice...
...commemorate Christmas and may have cynically picked the day to pass judgment on Liu to avoid Western media attention. But they may have given the people they wish to silence a new code word for anger. In the Twitterverse, Chinese language tweets have now paired Liu's fate and shengdan, the Chinese words for the birthday of Christ. From now on, Christmas will have a separate meaning for dissidents in China. It will be their day to commemorate Liu Xiaobo...
...diplomatic efforts: Iran's domestic political year of living dangerously, and the fact that the new Administration bound its diplomacy to tight deadlines and to the same goal as its predecessor - persuading Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, even for peaceful purposes. That combination of factors was clear in the fate of the Tehran Research Reactor fuel deal, which Obama's own deadline had turned into a kind of last-chance ultimatum...
There are still plans to open the relevant archives in 2014. But unless some shocking proof emerges that shows Pius didn't care about the Jews' fate, Benedict's declaring him venerable will stand as the Catholic Church's definitive absolution of historical guilt, of both Pius and the Church itself...
...scene during a police interrogation, she later retracted her statement, saying it was induced under duress. But Knox's blithe behavior after the murder--she did cartwheels during questioning and made out with her boyfriend rather than displaying grief--may have aroused enough suspicion to seal her fate...