Word: fates
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...fate of the nation hinges on a few thousand votes--even perhaps a few hundred--in a state better known for retirement communities and Disney World than changing the political fate of the nation...
Harvard did plummet in the latest National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll, right behind--you guessed it--Brown and Boston College, two teams that did not make the tournament. Luckily for Harvard, a poll did not determine its NCAA fate...
With the precarious ideological balance in the Supreme Court, the next president may very well decide the fate of major issues such as abortion, gay rights and gun-control laws in the event of a court vacancy...
...Thus, likewise, CNN telegraphed heavily the poll-predicted fate of a certain high-profile Senate candidate who, of of some quaint, outmoded respect for the thousands of people who have yet to vote for or against this person, I will not name. "This is going to be a very tense time," said a CNN reporter at the Mr./Ms. Senate Candidate HQ. The report was followed by a certain high-profile partisan pundit, married to another certain high-profile partisan pundit, giving a litany of excuses why Mr./Ms. Contender might have done better. Although...
Japan has its issues with North Korea, not least of which is the fate of 10 Japanese who went missing more than 20 years ago. Tokyo insists they were abducted by Pyongyang's spies. Mori recently let slip that on a 1997 trip to the North Korean capital, a delegation of pols he led suggested a way out of the diplomatic brier patch: Let Japan "discover" its people in a third country, say, Thailand, allowing North Korea to sidestep blame. The idea has some appeal, but only while secret. "If negotiations reach a deadlock in the future, North Korea might...