When I took it back, fate placed me in the hands of one of those rare women who can correctly identify the bra size of a fully clothed woman.
Time after time, fate placed him in the most desperate circumstances.
Yoruba tradition follows a unique cosmology and asserts that every individual has a specific destiny and fate, placing importance on self-understanding, religious nourishment, and spiritual growth.
They've come to enjoy a degree of shock absorption from the bumps of fate that places like the United States cannot offer.
One is about the fate of places that had either pinned all their hopes on Tesco's arrival, or opposed its plans from the start.
While the Guthrie case may be a particularly stark example of how much power one prosecutor can have over a defendant's fate, many places have given district attorneys similar influence.
The fate of places like Akiak, a village of 350 people about 400 miles west of Anchorage, was dictated by a political compromise two decades ago, when a line was drawn 50 miles from the Bering Sea.
With Glenny's new book, we are face to face with the fate awaiting places that succumb to political ruin: the outsider's presumption that a whole, big history is there for the plucking.
They all bear a share of responsibility for the fate of places that have recently been deemed by UNESCO to be "World Heritage Sites in danger".During its latest annual gathering, which ended on July 6th, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee (a rotating group of 21 member states) also added 26 new places to the list of locations it considers to have "outstanding universal value" to humanity.
And there is something treacherous about equating the Gypsies' fate at places like Auschwitz with the Dutch passion for social control, which put them into postwar "educational camps," where loudspeakers told them when to take a shower and grandfathers were rationed to two beers a night.
