Did the fact that the fickle finger of fate pointed at you in 2014 to take over the reins of education suddenly qualify you to tell England's grandparents what to do with books?
This image of gradual irrelevance and uselessness is not simply a harbinger of Cipriano's possible fate; it points toward the broader dilemma of a society whose ethical system has been sacrificed to short-term solutions and the caprices of market economics.
In the Monday afternoon meeting that sealed his fate, Roussey pointed to the situation last year, when his team were two points off the drop-zone in February before losing only one of their last 11 games to finish fifth and qualify for Europe for the first time in 27 years.
For Heathcock, suffering is everyone's fate, a point he drives home repeatedly.
Still, though no one here likes to tempt fate by pointing it out, almost two months have passed since an Israeli died in a Palestinian suicide bombing.
IT'S tempting fate to point this out, but the loony fringe in Japan's new government, as represented by Shizuka Kamei, the foghorn of a financial-reform minister, has become refreshingly mute lately.
