Word: lifelong
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...Mohammad Fayaz, a doctor who six years ago derided to follow his lifelong dream of becoming a Pashtu movie direc tor, the recent threats are a new blow to an already unstable industry. Indian imports and the rise of cable television have eroded box-office takes for several years. People worry that cinema halls will be the next target of extremists, he says. "The industry has been in a long fall Then the bombs crashed the business." Nonetheless, he intends to keep directing movies as long as he is able. "Movies are my addiction," he says. His next film...
...Veltroni, 52, on the other hand, is a lifelong politico who talks about Italy's need to be "reasonable" and "pragmatic." He was Vice Premier in Prodi's first government from 1996 to 1998, before moving over to run the capital. Pale and bespectacled, next to the ever-tan, ever-spiffy Berlusconi, the Rome mayor has high-culture tendencies and a book-writing hobby; he has written an earnest novel and a biography of a little-known jazz musician. Veltroni even gets a mention in Ian McEwan's best-selling novel Saturday...
...Romney, who in his 2007 speech “Faith in America” sought to unite believing voters, in his own 2006 signature speech on religion and public life Senator Obama called for a coalition of progressives, both believers and secularists. Obama possesses the unique perspective as a lifelong rationalist and recent convert to speak sincerely to all Americans...
...mannered and eloquent members of the Harvard community in attendance into a raving pack of grunting and shouting Neanderthals. The crowd assembled in the Kirkland basement was probably pretty representative of any group of Harvard students who watched the Super Bowl last night. The majority were New England fans, lifelong and bandwagon alike, with a sprinkling of true Giants fans supplemented by a sizeable amount of Patriots-haters and a decent portion of those just there to watch the game because, well, that’s what one does on Super Bowl Sunday. Supporters of both teams exhausted themselves...
...Aboriginal people claiming to be part of the stolen generation have tried to bring suit against the government. All cases but one were withdrawn or failed. Last August a South Australian court awarded $525,000 (about $468,000 in U.S. currency) to Bruce Trevorrow after agreeing that his lifelong depression resulted from his 1957 separation from his mother. On Feb. 1, the South Australia Supreme Court granted him a further $250,000 (U.S.$223,000), representing 50 years of interest on the compensation award...