The fighting over Park51, the stabbing of a Muslim taxi driver and the horrific anti-Muslim rallies on September 11th that I witnessed this year have made me worry the United States might suffer the same fate, destroying our cities, but this time, with our own hands.
During all of this mayhem the Loom of Fate is destroyed, and Sloan manages to escape.
Anxious to avoid the fate of Arthur Andersen, destroyed by the Enron scandal, Grant Thornton is trying to argue the principle of "local liability" in order to distance itself from its Italian operation.
The tricky paradox of tragedy is that we at one and the same time both know and don't know our fate, and are destroyed in the process of its reckoning.
"Their love affair was a modern version of the ancient tragedies in which the protagonist, doomed by fatal ignorance, realizes in the end that he has brought upon himself an inexorable fate that will destroy him," Mr. Gage concludes in a book that likens its subjects to Odysseus and Medea even while documenting their bathing suit purchases and nightclub revels in Monte Carlo.
Fortunately, "Detroit Industry" didn't suffer the same fate as the destroyed "Man at the Crossroads".
This was possibly always her fate: a woman destroyed by the very people who loved her, for the brazen act of being female, beautiful, successful, and human all at once.
This was possibly always her fate: a woman destroyed by the very people who loved her, for the brazen act of being female, beautiful, successful and human all at once.
This vision of our collective fate, in which technology destroys and saves us simultaneously, is both elevating and dreadful.
La Venta suffered the fate of San Lorenzo, having been destroyed by violence around 400 bce.
