Word: pursuits
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...name of getting the levels of defense spending that he feels ? rightly or wrongly ? the nation so urgently needs. Shifting to a system of satellite defenses would require years of careful planning and sincere negotiations with the Soviets, for the idea can never work as a unilateral pursuit or as merely a hostile escalation of the arms race. ? By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence L. Barrett and Douglas Brew/ Washington...
...Walsh says. “But we’ve got a bad taste in our mouths. We want to win this thing. We want to get back to the Ivies.”The hungry Crimson squad is wasting no time in making some noise. Its 2008 championship pursuit will start with what is arguably one of the most difficult non-conference schedules in the country.Three big road trips will make up Harvard’s first 20 games. The Crimson opened its season with a three-game series at No. 16 Wichita State in Kansas last weekend. This...
...Unlike many Harvard students who have view the Core as a bane, Miller considers a liberal arts education to be an end, and he’s not alone. Miller is someone who considers his time at Harvard to be the genesis of a lifelong pursuit of knowledge. “My training tends to make me think of what liberal arts meant historically,” Miller says. “I think the way it’s used now has become unmoored from the historic meaning of the term...
...Gowen chose to attend Harvard rather than a school like MIT because Harvard, unlike technical schools, provides him with the option to explore other educational possibilities. He, like many in similar positions, believes that the liberal arts will aid in his pursuit to become a well-rounded person—an important quality regardless of future profession...
...even then, politics did not have the low standing it has today. Italians perceive it as the pursuit of private affairs in the public sphere. It has lost its primary purpose: to set goals, solve problems and lead the country forward. Nobody expects that Italian politics can be renewed in the arc of a single election campaign. But we have to acknowledge a plain fact: that a political system so prone to manipulation and myopia is incompatible with an advanced democracy. Is it an advanced democracy if scores of local city councils have been dissolved in recent years because they...