Word: pursuits
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When the threat was proven to be a figment of the Bush administration’s imagination, the purpose of the enterprise was switched to the pursuit of “freedom.” While normally among the noblest of aims, that glorious ideal has here been turned into little more than a fallback plan for the occupation’s public relations division. This gives us good reason to doubt the sincerity of our government’s commitment to Iraqi freedom...
...women’s captain Jenna Harlow, the only returning veteran for the cross-country women’s team, took a surprising 24th in the 5K Classic with a time of 18:28.0, the top-30 finish good for NCAA points. Harlow also took 36th in the 5K Pursuit with a time...
...German: 'By literary genre,' she observes, 'I mean a body of work belonging to literature considered as an art and to which inherent standards of artistic excellence pertain.' She is the kind of girl who takes 33 talky pages to tell you that art 'must tend toward the pursuit of silence' ... Yet for all her limitations, Susan Sontag has undeniable impact. She is one of those critics who must be judged by their presence as well as their performance. However badly she writes, she will probably continue to shake up academic complacencies ... Her serious posture, too, will go on being...
...infinity like Harpo Marx's coat pockets, detailing all manner of governmental powers and functions--related to everything from dockyards to coinage. In fairness, how could anyone reasonably expect such a document to compete, in our romantic imagination, with another resounding with trumpet fanfares extolling life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Just as American conversations and American journalism will always prefer elections over governance, so Americans read the Declaration as poetry, the Constitution as prose...
...only ones with questions following Dr. Rice's confirmation hearing. The State Department staff who have been told to gather on Friday to welcome their new boss will certainly be keen to understand just what she meant by her call on them to learn new skills in pursuit of what she called "transformational diplomacy," adding that U.S. diplomats will need to become more active in "spreading democracy and fighting terror." "Spreading democracy" has not exactly been the top priority of diplomats, who by definition tend to avoid activism. Getting them to embrace it now is just one of Rice...