Word: missions
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However, despite the inventiveness of the program, Higginbotham feels that the African and African American department is simply going back to its roots. “We feel like we are fulfilling a mission that was inherent to the whole call for African American and African studies as we see it today. We feel that we are...living up to a mission that was part of our founding call...” The student protestors of the ’60s and ’70s did not just want to learn about the black contribution to the world...
...after he started shooting Black on White, says he has wanted to make this kind of film for years. In the 1980s, he had prepared to go undercover as a black man in South Africa, but then Nelson Mandela was suddenly freed, apartheid came to an end and his mission lost its purpose. In the 1990s, he wanted to join African refugees who were trying to sneak their way into Europe, but he couldn't find a trafficker who would take him on. (See pictures of the French cracking down on migrants...
Khazei, who seeks to fill the position vacated by the late Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ‘54-56, outlined his 10-point plan for Afghanistan, which recommended returning to the original mission of destroying Al-Qaeda terrorist organizations, slowly recalling troops, establishing a timetable to transfer power to the Afghani government, and focusing on the threat posed by terrorist organizations as well as nuclear arms development in Pakistan...
Khazei said that over time, the U.S. has strayed too far from its mission of fighting Al-Qaeda terrorism in Afghanistan, damaging relations overseas, and hurting its citizens domestically...
...choices in Afghanistan are not easy. But with the right strategy, we can reinforce our mission and succeed in our fight against Al-Qaeda,” he added...