Destiny

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Isn't focusing on foreign students entering the U.S. a form of discrimination ("America is exceptional, and that includes the way we treat immigrants," April 29)? After all, we don't enforce our immigration laws, which has resulted in America being flooded with 11 million to 12 million immigrants who are here illegally. Who is to say how many of those have terrorist inclinations are not just students? We should either enforce all immigration laws or not enforce any, keeping in mind as President Ronald Reagan said: "A nation that cannot control its borders can't control its destiny.

CHESTERTOWN - The parents of Richard Wayne "Richie" Spicknall III and Destiny Array Spicknall spoke in a packed Kent County courtroom yesterday - one to remember the slain youngsters and try to move on, the other to acknowledge that not even a lifetime in prison can change what he did. Clutching baby blankets that had belonged to her children, Lisa Marie Spicknall spoke quietly, tearfully, yet remained composed as she recalled favorite memories and...

Is life great or what? For Baltimore Ravens fans - and we're guessing that this newspaper's readership is pretty much birds of a feather in this regard - the last two weeks have been a delight. To beat the Indianapolis Colts in a home playoff game and then the highly-touted Denver Broncos in the mile-high city in a nail-biting double-overtime contest the following week has not only been a thrill ride, but it has united this city - or at least diverted its collective attention from the less easily-resolved challenges of the day - in the way that only popular sporting events can. "Team of destiny" is how a lot of the nation's sportswriters have taken to describing the Ravens after their upset victory over Peyton Manning and the Broncos.

We live in fascinating times. On the one hand, it is OK to detail the most intimate aspects of a woman's reproductive health in congressional testimony and to demand "free" birth control pills from employers and/or the government. It is also OK to label those who object to such public displays of personal choice and state-sponsored free love as leading a "war on women. " On the other hand, it is also OK for those who hew to the same ideology as that above to condemn a woman who chooses to raise her children for a living as someone who "never worked a day in her life.

The current revolutionary mood sweeping the Middle East is looking very much like another real-life example of philosopher Auguste Comte's observation, "Demography is destiny. " At the turn of the 19th century, Westerners made up roughly 30 percent of the people on this planet. By the middle of this century, extrapolating present trends, Muslims will be about 30 percent of a much more crowded human population and Westerners reduced to less than 10 percent. This has all sorts of implications, laid out thoroughly by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin in their book, "Financial Reckoning Day. " But I want to focus on just one: how a population explosion in the Arab world, stretching from Morocco through the Levant, has set the stage for the revolutionary fervor we've seen on the streets of Tunis, Cairo, Amman and elsewhere in the last couple of weeks.

Surely one of the most ambitious, provocative and strangely poignant projects in all of documentary filmmaking is the "7 Up" series, begun in 1964 by Britain's Grenada TV and continued every seven years since then. The new installment, "35 Up," opens today at the Charles, and it is by far the most compelling.For those unfamiliar with the concept, the "Up" series is an examination of class, heredity and destiny, played out in real time. It began in 1964, when the British commercial network Grenada did a soporific profile on 14 "typical" British TC schoolchildren, then all 7 years old. The kids were drawn from all classes, meant to provide a "cross-section" of the future of society, as the narrator grandly put it.Somewhere along the line, somebody got the bright idea of revisiting the children every seven years to gauge their progress: "35 Up" is the fifth such enterprise, using footage from the four previous visits.

"I gather you had a bit of trouble getting through to Mr. Beers," laughs INXS bassist Garry Gary Beers as he comes on the line.Trouble? Well, there was a bit of confusion when the interviewer, calling the designated number at the designated time, was told, "There's no one by that name registered at the hotel." But that was mainly the fault of the band's New York hotel, which didn't quite grasp the fact that big-time rock acts never register under their real names."You'd think they'd be used to that by now," Beers says.

Garage rock meets garage moviemaking: that should have been the mandate of Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, featuring Kyle Gass and Jack Black as the amateur-hour power-guitar duo Tenacious D, who believe they're God's (or Satan's) gift to rock 'n' roll. Instead, with the collusion of director and co-writer Liam Lynch, Gass and Black make a spectacle of themselves. They create a joke-ridden fantasy complete with tarot card chapter breaks boasting titles like "Destiny" and "The Quest."

St. Louis-- --When you're a team of destiny, the ground does not come apart under your feet, as it did under Detroit Tigers outfielder Curtis Granderson at a pivotal moment of last night's pivotal Game 4 of the 102nd World Series. When you're a team of destiny, the guy throwing 100 mph strikes everybody out at the end. The little leadoff hitter on the other team doesn't turn your velocity against you and drive the ball over the center fielder's head to bring home the winning run in the eighth inning.

The Ravens' first goal every season is to make it to the playoffs so in that sense, Sunday wasn't as big of a disaster as it once appeared. But the manner in which it happened leaves plenty of questions about whether the Ravens will be able to accomplish their other goals, which go far beyond just qualifying for the postseason. Long after the last player had filtered out of M&T Bank Stadium following a humbling 34-17 loss against the Denver Broncos on Sunday, the Ravens (9-5) got an early Christmas gift when the Pittsburgh Steelers were beaten in overtime by the Dallas Cowboys.

Like last year, this season of "Revenge" kicked of with a traumatic scene from Labor Day weekend, where we are led to believe that Amanda has sank and a guy (Jack, if the pocket watch is to be a clue) has drown. But of course, we will be left wondering about this for the next few months, because where do shows begin in the Hamptons? Memorial Day, of course. All of our regular favorites make their way back to the Hamptons as they prepare for the kick-off to summer and Victoria Grayson's annual art auction, even though Victoria is no longer in the picture.

Regarding Marta Mossburg's column "Biology really is destiny" (April 25), biology really is not destiny in any meaningful sense. Is a woman who chooses not to have children willfully - or stupidly - defying her destiny? Would that make her a failure as a woman? Are birth control pills thus evil? It's a shame Ms. Mossburg got so caught up in the media frenzy that she couldn't usefully reflect on Hillary Rosen's comment about Ann Romney. As a single father who raised three teenage boys while working 50 hours a week, I can certainly attest to the difficulties of parenthood.

We live in fascinating times. On the one hand, it is OK to detail the most intimate aspects of a woman's reproductive health in congressional testimony and to demand "free" birth control pills from employers and/or the government. It is also OK to label those who object to such public displays of personal choice and state-sponsored free love as leading a "war on women. " On the other hand, it is also OK for those who hew to the same ideology as that above to condemn a woman who chooses to raise her children for a living as someone who "never worked a day in her life.

Growing up in a Baltimore row house, Elaine Northrop had a happy, if somewhat unconventional, childhood. Her father was a dreamer and a gambler, recalls Northrop, who grew up to build one of the most successful real estate companies in Howard County from the ground up. Her mother was the family's breadwinner and dealt with their money woes, but her father was an eternal optimist who taught her to believe in herself. At age 23, such life lessons would be called into play when she agreed to marry her first husband on their second date.

Baltimore County has had two murder-suicides, homicides within families and among longtime friends, and an increase in suicides in the past few months. And on Tuesday evening, officers defused a hostage situation on the 12th floor of a high rise. The recent spate of violence prompted health officials and police to organize a news conference Wednesday that addressed holiday stress and the tragedies that can occur when family, friends and neighbors miss the signs of emotional, economic or physical troubles in others.

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The man who led the Serbs into Bosnia's heart of darkness now resides in his own shadowland, holed up in a glum mountain resort while the world waits to arrest him for genocide.But Radovan Karadzic is still the dominant ruler in Bosnia's Serbian Republic, and the longer he remains in power, the more deeply he entrenches his policies of ethnic intolerance, opponents say.More than six months after the November signing of the Bosnian peace accord in Dayton, Ohio, Muslims in Bosnian Serb territory are still being forced from their homes and jobs.

Two guys from Bawlmer did a little bit of weekend construction yesterday, adding a 28-foot room to the International Space Station. In a spacewalk lasting more than 7 1/2 hours, Baltimore-born astronauts Tom Jones and Robert Curbeam stepped outside the shuttle Atlantis and successfully attached the $1.4 billion U.S.-built Destiny science laboratory to the station as it orbited more than 200 miles above Earth. They were assisted by a third city native, Marsha Ivins. She lifted the 15-ton lab out of the shuttle's payload bay with a Canadian robotic arm, then eased it into its berth on the station's Unity module.

As a member of the hit girl-group Destiny's Child, Michelle Williams had a backup role to frontwoman Beyonce. But as an actress, Williams has found herself playing the leading lady. With stints in Broadway plays such as "Aida," "The Color Purple" and "Chicago," Williams is quickly establishing herself as a seasoned thespian. Williams' latest role, in the play "What My Husband Doesn't Know," is Lena Summer, a married woman who struggles with fidelity. Williams talked about her longtime love of acting, her future projects in music and on stage, and about Beyonce's pregnancy.

Courtney Senini knew something was amiss when aides started dashing in and out of the classroom, passing messages to the admirals and generals who taught her leadership seminar at the U.S. Naval Academy. Finally, one of the aides stood before the room of seniors and in a big, puffy voice, said the words that would change their lives: "Ladies and gentlemen, the United States is under attack. " The room fell silent. An attack on American soil seemed inconceivable when Senini and her classmates entered the academy in 1998.