Word: pursuitence
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...Gerhard Schröder meet this week in Berlin, but despite the obligatory grins and displays of solidarity, the Three Amigos they are not. Not long ago Blair was warning publicly that Chirac was trying to drag Europe down a dead end of reflexive opposition to the U.S. in pursuit of a moldy Gaullist dream of French glory - and complaining privately that Chirac had it in for him. Chirac thought Blair was blindly following a dangerous unilateralist. Schröder tried to patch things up, but also made it clear that if forced to choose, he would pick France...
...finals periods, for example. At those times everyone’s stress rubs off on everyone else! Having just seen my first set of stressful finals period at Harvard, I think spoken word is going to become an increasing outlet for me to express myself in a nonacademic pursuit. Over the next four years I hope I have the courage and creativity to be honest in my poetry and not be afraid to try new styles...
...more important than what happens in the bedroom. Meanwhile, if George W. Bush thinks that just because he isn’t having affairs, he can get away with a presidency full of colossal intelligence failures, disgraceful misdeeds of finance and influence and apparent manipulation of facts in the pursuit of war, then…well, America may just prove him right...
...both winners of Bronze and Silver Stars and the Purple Heart (three for Kerry, two for North). But North viewed Vietnam as an honorable crusade against communism, and aiding the Nicaraguan contras as the next chapter in that fight. Kerry, for his part, had no tolerance for deception in pursuit of that goal. Kerry boasts on the campaign trail that he "led the fight to expose Oliver North and his private aid network," which is true up to a point. But "he wasn't the only one blowing the whistle," says William LeoGrande, dean of the School of Public Affairs...
...member advisory council to mentor him on the expansion of his business: two bankers, an attorney, a restaurant consultant, an accountant and a psychologist. (Chefs are a little crazy, as anyone in the restaurant business will tell you.) He has increased staff training to reassure himself that the pursuit of perfection will be maintained even when he is not in the kitchen. And, as insurance, he is installing a live video link between the kitchens of the French Laundry and Per Se so he can eyeball the day's squid preparation or vegetable selection on a large plasma screen...