Word: enlisting
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...time when the U.S. is striving to enlist the support of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-led moderate states to help counter Iranian influence in the Middle East, few foreign diplomats are as important a player as Riyadh's man in Washington. Which is why Prince Turki Al Faisal's sudden, unexplained resignation earlier this week, which came after just 15 months in his post, has left Washington so puzzled and concerned about possible palace intrigue in the House of Saud...
Eventually, she says that she would like to teach an undergraduate course. When asked if teaching was a way for her to enlist the best and brightest to join her research team, D’Souza breaks into a wide smile and says, “Yes, that’s the whole idea...
...form their political convictions in the army, right and left.”Kaplan, who attended high school in Italy, says she was tempted during her senior year to put off military service and apply to U.S. colleges first, but her parents encouraged her to return to Israel to enlist.“‘How can you forget you are Israeli?’ they said, and I am so glad they did. Through the army, I reconnected to my Israeli identity,” Kaplan recalls.At Harvard, these students have a chance to reevaluate the identities they...
...house their staff at all levels,” Councillor Henrietta Davis said. A recent satisfaction survey found that Cantabrigians consider affordable housing “the single most important issue facing the City of Cambridge today.” Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio also proposed that Cambridge enlist Harvard, MIT, and other area institutions to improve the city’s public schools. “We’re the ones in a better position to ask university and corporate partners to consider a partnership in our school systems,” he said. But City Manager Robert...
...life as their neighbors do, with so many omissions; a life blank as if unlived." But by now, the police are cracking down on freeloaders like Dan, and he gets his just deserts. Soon enough, Dan gets lost in the moral mire of this world. Some exploited construction workers enlist him to take on their employer, a shady real estate tycoon who blunts the offensive by offering Dan a free apartment. Dan has an affair with a fresh-from-the-countryside "masseuse" and resolves to right a dreadful wrong she has suffered. But Dan is torn between his thirst...