1.   In several fables the kelpie appears as a handsome young prince, who lures maidens to a watery fate worse than death.

2.   But first, Maggi Rosenberg has to contend with a fate worse than thunderclouds.

3.   It goes beyond the spectacle of killing, and even the immediate experience of violence, to contemplate a fate worse than death.

4.   Some would consider that a fate worse than capture in Bosnia.

5.   To many in this aggressively untrendy town, Americanization represents a fate worse than hurricanes, heat waves and bad oysters.

6.   When conglomerates go under, they drag millions of innocent people with them, to a fate worse than death.