Word: fates
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...Crimson was disappointed, but there was a slight hope still out there. The Lions, who would travel to Hanover Saturday, held in their claws the fate of the very team they had just beaten. A Columbia win over Dartmouth coupled with a Harvard win over Cornell would have kept the Crimson just one game behind the Big Green...
Awaiting their fate, we mostly have to make do with the comic mainstream, wherein The Whole Nine Yards is currently bobbing. Directed by Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny), it's a story more machined than created, in which Oz Oseransky (Matthew Perry), an innocent Canadian dentist, gets involved with a semiretired mob hit man (Bruce Willis) and a legion of his former colleagues who want to whack Willis for ratting out their boss. Somehow Oz survives, and gets the gunman's gorgeous ex-wife (Natasha Henstridge) for good measure...
General Augusto Pinochet's fate had once seemed to hold Chile on a knife edge; now it looks more like a non-event. The former dictator flew home Thursday after Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw ended extradition proceedings on torture charges and said Pinochet was free to leave. But the generalissimo will return to a country no longer in his thrall. When he left Chile in September 1998 it was as self-appointed senator-for-life and a self-satisfied former military ruler who had deigned to allow civilians once again to govern. When his plane lands in Santiago...
...articles alleging yakuza (Japanese mafia) ties and match rigging. Making the claims then were two ex-wrestlers, who died suddenly within 15 hours of each other in the same Nagoya hospital and of the same respiratory ailment. Sumo is indeed filled with mystery. Itai is aware of the fate of previous whistle-blowers. One of the deceased wrestlers was his stable master...
Inside a cramped apartment on Moscow's eastern edge, Lyudmila Babitskaya never moves far from the television or telephone. For more than a month, she has been waiting to learn the fate of her husband Andrei Babitsky, a U.S.-funded Radio Liberty reporter who disappeared in Chechnya. "It started as a nightmare," she says of her vigil, "but it's turning into a horror story...