Word: fated
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Fidel Castro and Miami politicians are already using six-year-old Elian Gonzalez as a poster boy. Now Madison Avenue wants a piece of the photogenic tyke. As long as Elian is a guest in capitalist America - pending a U.S. court decision on his fate - companies like the popular web-search firm AltaVista want to cast him in commercials. An advertising firm based in Portland, Ore., Wieden & Kennedy, which produces AltaVista's ads, tells TIME it is making a pitch to Elian's Miami family about using the boy's image in a national spot...
...difference between the guitar and the drums/harmonica/piano is that I had no divine intervention in trying to learn the latter. Now, I'm on a mission. I can't ignore fate when it slaps me upside the head in the middle of the night. It wakes me up and I have the darndest time getting back to sleep...
...should expect our political leaders to echo, Ryan said, "Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty, until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate...
...nine-thirty on a chilly morning in January, and four Harvard students are yelling at the tops of their lungs. Their voices form a single chant with a dozen other demonstrators: "Not the Church, not the state, women must decide their fate...
...takes him back to London during the Mouldwarp era. (Those familiar with Plato's Republic will note with interest that the destination of this journey is a vast cave.) The tales Plato tells on his return do not sit well with the governing authorities, and Plato meets a Socratic fate, put on trial for corrupting the young. By this point, Ackroyd's lively tale has shaded into an invigorating meditation on the changelessness, after no matter how many eons, of human nature and its uneasiness with the unfamiliar...