Word: fates
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...himself with Mark Twain and Henry James, other writers who looked askance at American imperial expansion. He would have preferred to play a role in turning back this progress but instead became its disapproving chronicler. Regrets, he has a few, but he also takes comfort in the role that fate assigned him: "Writers have to tell the truth as they see it, and politicians must never give the game away." In his writing, the game goes...
...lingering questions about Lee. The paper ran the story anyway. Though it did not name Lee, the article set off a frenzy of finger pointing. The next morning, two FBI agents showed up on Lee's doorstep brandishing a copy of the Times piece and mentioning the Rosenbergs' fate. Soon Lee's name was linked everywhere to the Times article as the "suspected Chinese spy"--nowhere more prominently than on the Times's editorial page, which lamented the Administration's "lackadaisical" treatment of the case and questioned National Security Adviser Sandy Berger's "fitness" for office...
...injury was bad? Just wait. A major study that tracked more than 1,200 doctors for nearly 40 years found that sustaining a knee injury early in life can lead to a whopping fivefold increase in the risk of developing arthritis by age 65. Any way to avoid that fate? The researchers suggest using a knee brace--and totally giving up the injurious activity. --By Janice M. Horowitz...
...check in the system is judges, who have the power to reject the prosecutorial claims but tend not to use it. David Cole, law professor at Georgetown University, explains, "When the government claims the fate of the U.S. is at stake, judges tend to believe that. How is a judge supposed to assess on his own whether a national-security threat exists...
...much of the campaign year, environmentalist groups have dogged the Gore campaign over the fate of the U'wa, an 5,00-strong indigenous Colombian tribe who've threatened to commit mass suicide if Occidental goes ahead with a plan to drill oil on land they hold sacred. Just last week pro-U'wa hecklers disrupted a University of Missouri speech by Karenna Gore-Schiff, and a second group were arrested trying to enter a Gore campaign office in Washington state. Of course, these protests are mostly an opportunistic effort by the tribe's supporters to take advantage...