Word: path
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...lives in Paris, where she is busy on a number of fronts, including adapting Persepolis into an animated movie. In April, she will release a provocative nonfiction comic book, Embroideries, that explores the sex lives of Iranian women. Her career is flourishing, but she didn't have an easy path to the top. In the following graphic essay, which Satrapi composed for TIME, the artist portrays some of the naysaying that cartoonists endure...
...Morgan herself is a testament to science fiction’s path into the mainstream. More into fantasy than science fiction, she was reluctant to make broad generalizations about science fiction, saying she didn’t “feel quite enough in touch with the world of science fiction” to do so, though she said she is “decidedly a part...
...choice with Oberst is fairly simple: laugh at him or cry with him. Laughter is certainly the path of least resistance, especially when confronted with the two hulking new Bright Eyes albums--I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn--released simultaneously on Jan. 25. Over the course of 22 tracks, there is exactly one attempt at relative lightness--"I always get lost when I leave the Village/ So I couldn't come meet you in Brooklyn last night" (well, I chuckled)--and Oberst whispers it lest anyone notice. His emotional palette...
...woman who dreams of becoming a professor of mathematics, I feel personally affected by society’s perceptions of women in science. While I believe that my work as a mathematician will speak for itself, I also suspect that my path to secure employment may be more difficult in departments, such as Harvard’s, that have never had a female tenured professor of mathematics. It is important that I earn the respect of my peers, who will one day be my colleagues, for my talents and not as a statistical anomaly: a woman who is adept...
...approaching a turning-point in Iraq. The January 30th elections will put the country on one of two paths. While the elections are not likely to have a dramatic immediate effect on the situation on the ground, in the long term the path Iraq takes is predicated on their outcome. Either the elections will be widely participated in and viewed as legitimate, leading to a slowly improving security situation, or they will be viewed as an American imposition and will lead to an eventual failure of the Iraqi state...