Word: fates
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...bane of English majors, looks brand-new and thrilling in a verse translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The tale may still strike readers as bloodthirsty, but Heaney's language evokes Beowulf's tragic stature, his helplessness to avoid - and his bravery while facing - the dictates of his fate...
While the Supreme Court decision revoked one trademark, the fate of the four other trademarks related to the "Harvard Reader" has yet to be determined. Those four trademarks, all belonging to Korean service class 52, have been revoked by the KIPO, but Calixto said Itempool may still appeal the revocation...
...Senator Pryor took that proposal and decided that he knew what was best for students instead of letting them decide their own fate," she said...
...that Gao Xingjian had become the first Chinese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy singled out for particular praise his "great novel" "Soul Mountain," calling it "one of those singular literary creations that seem impossible to compare with anything but themselves." Proving that fate sometimes smiles on publishers, an English rendition of "Soul Mountain" (HarperCollins; 510 pages; $27) was in the works well before the Nobel hullabaloo made its author an international celebrity, and has now arrived with the unexpected imprimatur of the Swedish Academy...
...macabre twist of fate, many of those killed in the insurgency following the election were supporters of excluded candidates calling for free and fair elections. Gbagbo's supporters, mainly from southern ethnic groups, turned on their Muslim and northern rivals in politically and ethnically motivated violence. While Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, the U.S. State Department and the Organization of African Unity called for new and free elections, the French hurriedly supported Gbagbo as president. This sealed Gbagbo's resolve to proclaim himself as president though he was far from having a national mandate...