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...preferred choice of a dump-Netanyahu movement within the party last fall. Under pressure from key Likud members, Netanyahu named Meridor as Finance Minister. Netanyahu also tried to humble Ariel Sharon, the hawkish and outspoken former Defense Minister, offering him the housing ministry. Sharon, expecting something grander, declined. The party closed ranks behind Sharon, and Netanyahu offered him a new and powerful infrastructure ministry. By the end of last week, Sharon was still sulking and hadn't given an answer...
...mythic ethos. The drama takes place in a gray, unnamed city (it's shot in Vancouver). Profit, a junior vice president, blackmails, murders and manipulates to remove obstacles and enemies, but his ultimate goal is unclear. While his urge to control is maniacal, he appears to want powers even grander than a mere title like CEO could bestow. The operations of Gracen & Gracen, "a family company," are shrouded in mystery. They simply "acquire"--businesses, information and, of course, souls...
...vast majority of professors hide themselves in their offices, either in noble pursuits such as meeting with students or in grander aims such as corresponding with monthly magazines about their latest piece of prose or arguing with colleagues from another country. While such activities are important (and we are far from proposing that professors spend less time with students), attending Faculty meetings and serving on the Council can help students indirectly and faculty members directly...
...were interested in doing something a little grander than the old usual," says Geoffrey C. Upton...
...Smashing Pumpkins have always had grander ambitions. The Chicago-based alternative band is quite capable of turning out three-minute, radio-ready songs (Today, Disarm). It also excels in creating longer, art-pop compositions that wander about for seven minutes or more, exploring a variety of musical textures, melodies and emotions. The band's first CD, Gish (1991), featured assertive rock that was at once primal and cerebral; its second, Siamese Dream (1993), was a buzzing, humming, intricately constructed maze of sounds...