Word: flukes
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...questions haunt the fortunate. Rob Garrard, 45, worked for IBM on the 97th floor of 1 World Trade Center. According to his hometown paper in Plymouth, England, Garrard's sister said he escaped death by "sheer fluke... He was late leaving home because he had to make some calls, then he took the bins out and had to catch a later train." Such are the mundane "run of events," as Garrard later called them, that change fate. He arrived at work an hour and 10 minutes later than usual and was waiting for the elevator when Flight 11 crashed...
...veterans of the Harvard womens soccer team came into Saturdays game against Brown hoping to prove that last years 2-0 defeat under the lights at Providence was merely a fluke...
While former Harvard tennis star James Blake is putting the Harvard name on the map with success on the pro tour, the current squad is quietly getting ready to show that its surprising run to the NCAA tournament last season was no fluke...
...eaten bad shellfish. Ridgeway was erroneously diagnosed as suffering from liver failure as a result of eating seafood tainted with the virus that causes hepatitis. After she died a few days later, Obara even comforted her parents when they came to take her body home. Due to an administrative fluke, Ridgeway's liver had been preserved at Tokyo Women's Hospital, where the autopsy had originally been performed. Last autumn, after Obara came under investigation for Lucie's disappearance and his other assaults, medical examiners tested Ridgeway's liver for chloroform, which proved to be present in toxic levels. Obara...
...pure fluke...