Word: prospect
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Colin Powell, a man who has risen from poverty to become America's most prominent military officer and a major actor in international affairs, might seem an ideal choice for Harvard's Commencement speaker. Yet among the radical fringe which dominates campus discussion at Harvard, the prospect of having to listen to a political moderate at Commencement is apparently too daunting even to contemplate...
Murphy would have liked to have a wonderful companion to spend the rest of her life with and false the child. But she was not certain which of two men was the father--and didn't want to marry either prospect. In the past, unwed women were encouraged to wed if they became pregnant. Today, society recognizes that, if she chooses, Murphy Brown is capable of raising a child...
...Bosnians alive. But having schooled the Serbs for so long in the idea that it is unwilling to translate threat into action, the West, with Clinton at the fore, faces the crunch: talk of force in Bosnia has cheapened to worthlessness, leaving force itself the only effective option. The prospect for freedom and peace in Bosnia -- and in the Bosnias waiting to happen elsewhere -- demands no less...
...everything, he declaims alarmingly that it could be used to predict that "a particular snowflake would fall on a particular blade of grass or that you would be reading this now." Never mind that such deterministic ambitions died long ago with the discovery of quantum uncertainty. Faced with that prospect, who would not reach for the candles and tarot cards...
...equations are part of nature as much as trees and rains and sex. We are, all of us, including Appleyard, free to make what we want of it. We are free to wake up every morning grateful for the feeling of sunshine on our face or grumpy for the prospect of tomorrow's rain. The fact that science cannot find any purpose to the universe does not mean there is not one. We are free to construct parables for our moral edification out of the law of the jungle, or out of the evolution and interdependence of species...