Word: pursuitence
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...fans had mobilized their votes. Those fans have remained, but their ranks have never swelled as fast as their Brits success - and beguiling, intelligent pop output over six albums since the band first got together in 1996 - seemed to predict. Now there's a seventh album, The Life Pursuit, that again shows the septet to be more than capable of charming the world beyond the already devoted. So will this one be the real breakthrough? "I'm a late starter," says Stuart Murdoch, the band's 37-year-old lead singer and chief songwriter, from a corner table in Uisge...
...ISSUE OF IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM WILL COME BEFORE THE SECURITY COUNCIL NEXT MONTH. DO YOU THINK THE DISPUTE CAN BE RESOLVED DIPLOMATICALLY? Sure. I never would have guessed that Libya was prepared to make the calculation that they were safer giving up the pursuit of nuclear weapons than continuing to go after them, and yet they did [give them up]. And that led to substantial progress in the relationship between Libya and the United States. If Libya can do it, Iran can do it too. That's why I say the decision ultimately is largely in their hands...
...President Bok defends the 1978 decision in an open letter. Bok writes that “total divestment would almost certainly cause the University to divert millions of dollars in pursuit of a strategy that is legally questionable, widely disputed on its merits, and very likely to prove ineffective in achieving its objectives...
...after decades at the heights of power helping to mount and administer great battles that caused many thousands of deaths and injuries, the aging leader set out one afternoon into the fields of his beloved homeland in pursuit of a bird that meant no harm to him and which showed him at last - unintentionally, in a twinkling, and in a way that forever changed his heart and, over time, the hearts of all our leaders - what it was actually like to shoot...
Some might say that the University is not the right place for that pursuit. Others migh say it is, and maybe they’ll end up living longer and more fulfilling lives. The debate can rage, but whether it’s the children of light or the children of darkness who emerge at the end of the line, Ben-Shahar will still be lecturing to over a thousand students per week...