Word: fates
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...clear correlation between a theater's name and its prestige, can we blame Carr for offering up the choice reward of $1,000 to the person who suggests the best name for the new theater? After all, that paltry $1,000 could decide more about the theater's fate than the millions already invested...
...fallen under a great deal of controversy since its inception, since people have a natural aversion to using computers to determine their fate. Most arguments against the BCS have focused on the computer rankings which favor teams that run up the score. But the biggest problem with the BCS is its overemphasis on strength of schedule...
Thomas believes Bobby's is "the story of an unpromising boy who died as he was becoming a great man." Perhaps. Thomas every now and then falls into Camelot prose, the elegiac, mock-heroic blather about bright promise and fate and doom and how the gods have it in for the Kennedys--a literary form of which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is a founding master. And at times, Thomas slips into dreamy, unthinking partisanship: "Americans were afraid in 1968, and they eventually voted their fears and elected Richard Nixon." But perhaps Americans simply decided that the Democrats, with their ruinous, unwinnable...
...government of President Joseph Estrada admitted Monday that a number of civilians had died in its assault, which began Saturday but showed no sign of easing up despite international criticism for risking the fate of some 19 hostages, including Schilling and two French photographers. Having been paralyzed by months of hostage negotiations with the Abu Sayyaf organization, the Manila government's decision to take harsh action is hardly surprising. After all, the $15 million in ransom money paid by Libya to secure the release of a group of European, Lebanese and South African tourists had only emboldened Abu Sayyaf...
...wasn?t an attack of conscience that prompted Peru's President Alberto Fujimori to step down; it was the very armed forces that had guaranteed his power. The questions that may hold Peru?s fate, however, is why the generals made it clear to Fujimori that he had to go, and what their next move might be. Lima was awash Monday in rumors of coups and conspiracies, and it?s not hard to see why: New of the planned resignation of a strongman who had defied not only his own countrymen but also his most powerful backers in Washington...