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...where Costas Christofi died. Dubbed the “Who Knew” estate, the 65-acre affair stood as a testament to how far Williams had come. The manor’s title suggested that Williams appreciated the fact that—but for a few turns of fate, luck, divine intervention, or whatever—he could have ended up someplace very different...
...revisited from time to time, or the money will find ways to get back into the system." If Shays-Meehan becomes law, it should help clean up the money game, at least until its reforms are slowly strangled by loopholes. That's a noble fate for a bill that has been so often given up for dead...
...right time, as they have lost only once in their past five games. The Skating Dutchmen, though, are going in the opposite direction. After going an impressive 5-2-2 during January, Union finished 2-5-1 this month. However, both teams still control their own playoff fate...
Controversy over the fate of the records came to a head as news organizations and public interest groups asked for documents relating to the president’s relationship with the Houston-based Enron Corporation. The failed utilities trading firm was suspected of donation-bought political influence, especially in its home state. It is certainly reasonable that Bush’s public records be easily accessible to the public, especially to aid the investigation of Enron’s collapse and the terrible blow it dealt its employees. The current situation hardly promotes the transparency necessary for our democratic institutions...
...Virgil, the Roman poet par excellence, who took ill before he could finish his masterpiece, the Aeneid, and on his deathbed consigned it to flames so that it would not be published without his finishing touches. Western civilization has Augustus to thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet’s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were less than pure; although he undoubtedly had a sense of the Aeneid’s unsurpassable greatness, the poem also served...