Finally, sleet and rain aside, I couldn't have asked for a more fortunate first day to intern at the Burke Library, as that day each of the 48 manuscripts comprising the Burke's Syriac manuscripts collection were laid out, side-by-side, in the conference room – able to be viewed all together for the first time – and I was invited along!
You've seen the express check-in lanes and heard the early-boarding calls for the fortunate flyers of first class.
For the fortunate amongst us, the fourth danger, my friends, is comfort, the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who have the privilege of an education.
Leicester had failed to score in a Premiership match for the first time, fortunate to get as much as nothing.
For some, though, the fortunate moment came a few seconds too late.
It was scored by Mario Balotelli, who, not for the first time, appeared fortunate to still be on the field.
But she has yet to find an adequate balance between authenticity and artifice which leans on the side of believability, and that failing of style despite mountains of substance (her manifold experience advocating for the less fortunate, her work as first Lady of Arkansas and the United States, and her work as the two terms Senator from New York passing some key bipartisan bills) has held sway.
"I have got to admit that I think we were fortunate for the second goal.
