Word: missions
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...hire a gigolo to seduce Suzie so he can sleep with the alluring Cindy guilt-free, a suggestion that ultimately does more damage than Cindy does - but at the same time have a real naturalism. Imagine Pulp Fiction's Jules and Vincent sitting at the Marriott bar with no mission more pressing than peeling off a woman's sweatpants...
Meanwhile, though President Faust has taken it up as her mission to (try to) expand the arts at Harvard without disrespecting all those laid off staffers, Yale College has created a new position for an arts dean. According to the YDN, Dean Susan Cahan’s responsibilities will include “[developing] new programs in the arts” and making room for more artistic space. While Harvard does have its own Office for the Arts, this year it will probably be more focused on budget cuts than “new programs...
...reportedly raised a host of questions examining what HCL’s primary mission should be, and asked whether there was work HCL could stop doing entirely or whether the unit would need all the libraries it currently operates, according to Brainard’s notes...
...have not changed our mission,” Cline reportedly said at the meeting. “However, we will need to work creatively on how to do it with smaller staff and fewer dollars...
...British government became so deeply embedded in the negotiations [to solve the al-Megrahi problem] that they lost sight of the likely domestic political response and the wider diplomatic context," including the predictable anger of the U.S. A Sept. 1 letter written by Richard LeBaron, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in London, to authorities in Scotland withholds consent for Washington's "government-to-government" correspondence to be made public but reiterates "the United States Government's consistent and long-standing view that Mr. Megrahi should serve out his prison sentence in Scotland and the opposition...