Word: pursuits
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...film adaptation from Academy Award winning duo Joel and Ethan Coen.In the story, Llewellyn Moss, a mild-mannered Texan welder, discovers a large cache of drugs and money at the horrific desert site of a drug deal gone bad. He chooses to take the money and must evade the pursuit of a terrifying man guided only by a twisted moral code. TROUBLING PARALLELBut two days after being cast, tragedy struck.Brolin was in a motorcycle crash that, in addition to shattering his collar bone, helped him connect with the role on a personal level. “The thing about...
...popular prejudices, calling same-sex marriage a "disgrace to the nation and to God" and boasting that when he was a boy, he would "knock out" homosexuals. Crucially, he benefits from his position as an outsider. Many ANC supporters are unhappy with what they claim is the government's pursuit of economic growth over equality: millions of South Africans still live in the same tin-roof townships to which they were confined under apartheid. A target of particular outrage has been the emergence of a moneyed black élite around the party leadership--people like Sexwale and Ramaphosa...
...First came Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking U.S. assistance against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and help advancing Turkey's pursuit of entry into the European Union. Some might have thought it an odd moment for Anakara's premier to pay a courtesy call on Washington, what with the recent recall of the Turkey's ambassador to Washington in protest over moves in the U.S. Congress to label the massacre of Armenians in 1915 a genocide. And then there are the mounting fears of a Turkish incursion into Iraq to stop cross-border raids into southeastern Turkey...
...with the world in a multifaceted way, to employ the approach of liberal arts, and to absorb and apply new knowledge over the course of a lifetime is an essential part of being an intelligent and worthwhile person. If Harvard, an apex of higher learning, does not hold the pursuit of intellectualism as a central value, then can any other place be expected...
...here. Some burn out completely—free from the watchful eyes of mother and father, they stop attending classes and flop as students. But most of them simply don’t get what they should be getting out of college—the rigorous pursuit of liberal arts—because they can’t escape the résumé padding of their earlier years. They continue to take courses they’re not really interested in and they participate in activities they find dull because these are the ways to land jobs at Goldman...