Word: pursuits
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...reliable box-office magnet in Hollywood hasn't given himself or his fans much to laugh at. He was a tough, emotionally constipated cop chasing androids in I, Robot, and an ambitious man who loses his job, his home and his wife - everything but his young son - in The Pursuit of Happyness. Except for a romantic holiday in Hitch, the one-time Fresh Prince has become a stolid, solitary warrior in a gulag of gloom...
While the completion of a four-year college degree may serve to further career aspirations or satisfy the wills of parents for many students, Woo’s pursuit of education served a different purpose—to pull her out of poverty and create a future for her and her five-year-old daughter, Amarrah...
...pursuit of a traditional prosecution remains a powerful force at the Justice Department. It is hard to reward agents for walking away from cases. For now, terrorism expert Jenkins is comforted by one fact. "You do have an ultimate auditor against abuse or error, which is a judge and jury. It is up to them to look into the eyes of the informant and the defendants and decide who is telling the truth." Early next year, the Fort Dix defendants will have their chance. It will be as much a trial of their intent as it is of the government...
...crime - permitting her primary students to name a Teddy bear Mohammad - garnered the Khartoum regime a good deal of international condemnation for its radical justice, the charges against Gibbons and her famous bear were incidental to a larger struggle playing out in Sudan - the manipulation of Islam in the pursuit of personal and political power...
...about Israel or even about the disadvantages of the dearth of high-ranking minorities on the Faculty Council and in the University administration—another major obstacle to dialogue among a necessary range of perspectives about University policy and practice. I asked them, as my partners in the pursuit of truth and fairness, to add their thoughts and efforts to creating a conversation full of respect and free of intimidation about even the hottest of issues—a conversation in which people with a broad range of reasoned opinions and historical perspectives are actively invited to participate...