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...does he reach such a conclusion? Director Martin Scorsese does not attempt to explain, but chooses to chronicle, sometimes sympathetically, Travis's descent into violence (or, in his mind, his ascent towards justice). Whatever deeper psychological history lies in Travis's past, we never find out: as the movie's focus brings us closer and closer into his own world, we observe firsthand the wanderings of this tortured soul...
Last Thursday night, exactly one year since his triumphant ascent to the Speaker's chair, Gingrich stood before his troops at a private session in the Cannon caucus room. He had told them then that there would come a dark hour, when the fight would grow hard, the polls pitiless, the prospects bleak. And he had promised he would be right at their side, that once they had won the war, all the pain would be forgotten...
Radcliffe rugby's ascent has been a long time coming, but this season's successes undoubtedly constitute a significant step...
...alternative theory currently gaining favor among observers is that the ascent of U.S. Catholic families into the middle class has given sons a wider range of career opportunities. Monsignor Paul Cook, 62, pastor of St. Joseph's, remembers what happened after he sensed his calling to the priesthood: "When I told my parents about my interest when I was 13, they were thrilled. Today a young man is in college, and the parents are paying to have him prepare for engineering or law, and he says he wants to be a priest? More often than not, they...
...morning, a serpent of lights begins to coil up Mount Sinai--up the path Moses took, a sparkling procession of tourists' flashlights. As dawn arrives, you see less lovely effects--the litter of candy wrappers, soda cans and Kodachrome boxes people have discarded on the ascent...