Word: fates
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...village offered. Instead of carousing in the karaoke bars, he tried to set up his own business. He went south to Xiamen to trade seafood, but ended up losing money in the fickle, seasonal business. Undaunted, he was now attempting something far more audacious. He would entrust his fate to the "snakeheads" who illicitly spirit thousands of Chinese out of their homeland and into the promised land of America...
...City fireman (Dennis Quaid) dies in a warehouse blaze. Or maybe he doesn't. Maybe he enters a parallel universe. For in 1999 his son, a cop (Jim Caviezel), gets in touch with him, thanks to ham radio (and our suspended disbelief), and tells him how to avoid his fate. But rejigger a tiny piece of the past, and new problems arise. Suddenly, father and son are messily involved with a serial killer. Working-class Queens is a surprising, effective sci-fi setting, but the jumbled storyline is hard to track. Finally you give up on it--and, alas...
...American community," he wrote in an e-mail message to The Crimson. "These people who fled or whose parents fled Cuba now want to return him to what they know will be a life without a future, without opportunities, without any freedoms. They are condemning this child to a fate that they themselves left Cuba to avoid...
...CAUSA member Richard A. Perez '00, who is also a Crimson editor, said that that calling some Cuban-Americans disloyal simply because they disagree over Elian's fate goes against the very spirit of what the community as a whole came to the United States to protect...
...order to raise awareness about their position, CAUSA is planning to distribute information concerning the case next week outside the Science Center and is organizing a forum later this month at the Institute of Politics to address the issue of Elian's fate...