Word: intents
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...course, the critics haven’t been silent either. They weren’t too enamored of Reid’s performance in her new film Alone in the Dark, where she plays a brilliant anthropologist forced to contend with evil demons intent on world domination. The role represents a break from the starlet’s standard parts in sex comedies like Van Wilder—and Reid suggests her sexpot days may be numbered...
Corriero skated on with the puck on a string. The defenders’ struggle and Lane’s angle took away any chance of a clear shot. But they hadn’t taken away her intent to score. Keeping her full force behind the stick, she propelled the puck forward, wedging against Lane before popping up, hitting off Corriero’s shoulder and bouncing into the net for the game-winning goal...
...American studies professor Cornel West's scholarship and teaching, causing West to leave for Princeton and upsetting many in Harvard's African-American community. In a controversy in 2002, Muslims on campus said they were offended when Summers labeled as "anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent" the efforts of a group of students and faculty to persuade Harvard to divest its holdings in companies that do business in Israel as a protest against its treatment of Palestinians. He rattled some Asian Americans at Harvard when he used an inaccurate statistic on child prostitution to illustrate...
...prices are rising so fast that agents are stuffing their pockets as never before. The Department of Justice is reviewing the new rules proposed by the N.A.R. to restrict access to the multiple-listing services with an eye to determining if any antitrust issues are involved. "There is no intent to keep anybody from accessing this data," says N.A.R. spokesman Steve Cook, who points to the group's website of listings. Not all firms would be free to use those listings, though, and critics argue that the data really belong to home sellers--not to the real estate agents...
That will likely require a concerted effort to convince the public—and particularly female professors—that he is intent on reaching out to women on campus, and this week’s apology seemed to represent a first step...