Word: endeavor
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...Asian cinema icon Tony Leung), using virginal Wong Jiazhi (newcomer Tang Wei) as a lure. Wong poses as a well-bred aristocratic wife, Ms. Mak, and employs her acting abilities and womanly wiles to delicately tempt Mr. Yee. Taming the beast, however, becomes an increasingly perilous and poisonous endeavor. The character dynamics are evocative and rich in nuance. They comprise the film’s nucleus and are roughly microcosmic of the external political conflict. The first half of the movie underscores the students’ naïve confusion between histrionic ideals and a harsher reality, until a particularly...
...wisdom on a waiting world: Dependent on political leanings, Capitol Hill or the World Bank beckon. Yet not unlike the bright-eyed bureaucrats sent to Iraq in order to engineer a new (democratic!) constitution, only a conviction in their own goodness prevents them from recognizing the elitism of their endeavor. What Harvardian narcissism defies, yet what the world needs, in place of enlightened leaders assigned to manage the world, is a reaffirmation of democratic ideals in their entirety...
...whole in the House masters’ kitchen. This practice may have medieval feast written all over it, but the pheasant roaster was the modern-day Michael Pavloff ’88, one of the handful of former and current Harvardians who view food as a potentially full-time endeavor. A former champion of amateur cooking, Pavloff says that pheasant remains his favorite dish to this day. “It has a lot of fond memories of Harvard associated with it,” he says. Although he began cooking while living at home, Pavloff delved into French cuisine...
...aircraft that would give them more options when considering an amphibious assault. The dreams intensified following the failed Desert One mission in 1980 to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. In the course of the operation, three helicopters broke down, leading to an order to abort the entire endeavor, and a fourth chopper collided with a C-130 aircraft at a desert base, killing eight U.S. troops. That sent Pentagon bureaucrats hunting for a transport that could be used by all four military services and prevent another fiasco. Reagan, who took office the year after Desert One, began to pour money...
...regional government has promised to eradicate the plague in five weeks by burning fields, distributing poison, and clearing nests. But earlier this week a German biologist hired to assist with the endeavor told El País newspaper that he had doubts about the plan. In Fresno el Viejo, where selected fields were burned in early August, the impact was minimal, says Medina: "The voles just went to other fields." Silvia Clemente, Councilwoman for the region of Castilla-León, announced on Wednesday that there had been a 58% reduction in voles in towns where active treatment with poison...