With the defeat of bilingual schooling in California, educators around the country are examining that program's ill-fated path and drawing parallels to the outcome of other educational innovations of recent decades.
And, having stuffed its schedule with "American Idol" to help it win the May ratings war, and spinning off a version with younger contestants, is Fox following the same ill-fated path of oversaturation that ABC took three years ago with the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"?
You adjusted an ill-fated course.
But this represents another disheartening setback for an aging superstar, one whose career has been brilliant but haunted by misguided finger-rolls and ill-fated shots, and whose path to a title has often been blocked by the looming presence of Michael Jordan.
"He asked that Australia take responsibility for the search in the southern vector, which the Malaysian authorities now think was one possible flight path for this ill-fated aircraft," Mr Abbott said.
Mr Abbott told parliament on Monday that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak asked Australia to "take responsibility for the search on the southern vector, which the Malaysian authorities now think was one possible flight path for this ill-fated aircraft".
The report narrowed down the possible final resting place from thousands of possible routes, while noting the absence of communications and the steady flight path and a number of other key abnormalities in the course of the ill-fated flight.
Though Walken, now 69, has mellowed somewhat since he first crossed paths with Rourke on Michael Cimino's ill-fated epic, Heaven's Gate, in 1980, that description still seems apt.
After much hesitation, he gave way, and on July 31 , 1917 the ill-fated Passchendaele offensive began.
Legend has it that Ryder held hostage the master tapes of the Mondays' ill-fated fourth album, Yes Please, extorting money from Factory and putting the label on the path to bankruptcy.
FB surely stumbled along the path, and some of its efforts even drew outright scorn, but presumably the ill-fated experiments informed recent successes, and so it's worth a quick examination of how we got from here, from there.
