Word: excelling
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Perhaps. The truth is that I could not be certain why agents had come after me or where it would lead. This was the problem, of course: the uncertainty. Regimes like the Islamic Republic excel in sowing doubt. Without transparency, and allowed unfettered access to my own imagination, I started to question everyone, including my own friends. Had one of them sold me out? Who could I trust? It was a path of suspicion that led unexpectedly to myself. I began to understand Rubashov in his cell, in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, a man driven...
...stopped. The country has not qualified for a World Cup tournament since 1982 and became the first team worldwide to be eliminated from competition for the 2010 cup in South Africa. There are talented individual players on the squad, a number playing abroad, but they simply do not excel as a team...
...according to outgoing Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities Judith H. Kidd, who reflected on the anecdote of Hammonds’ youth that she once heard from the Dean herself, “Evelynn just decided to show him,” going on to excel in school despite stifling circumstances...
...tell Jeffrey’s story not as an example comparative to my own, but because I have done my best to apply the lessons learned from Maniac Magee during the past four years. We sportswriters are the aspirant athletes who were not blessed with the skills to excel on the playing field. Instead of playing, we do the best we can to engage ourselves in the pursuit of victory that we enjoy so very much, in the closest way possible...
Improper use of such study drugs not only is illegal but also creates inequalities among students. Harvard does its best to make sure financial situations do not impact a student’s ability to excel at Harvard, but students who are more socioeconomically prosperous are the ones who are able to illegally buy study drugs from others. When these students are able to pay high prices for drugs through the black market, they receive an unfair academic advantage...