Word: pursuits
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...take heart! Switzerland’s quick withdrawal and apology completely smoothed over what could have been a most unpleasant situation. Immediate U.S. pursuit of a parallel course of action regarding Iraq, it leads to follow, would do the same...
...thought we had begun to make strides, but then we couldn’t have been more shocked by this ‘axis of evil’ speech.” “The majority [of Iranian diplomats] feel it is a fruitless pursuit,” he said. After the panel, one student said the discussion was thought-provoking. “Tonight it became very clear, in talking about the leverage other countries can exert over the United States, the extent to which there is multi-polarity in the world,” said...
...into the red-brick, four-story former labor-movement community hall, which had more recently served as a refuge for young people from a society they detested, a place where they could spend hours and days listening to music, drinking beer, smoking dope and planning occasional political protests in pursuit of a revolution that never materialized...
That's about the only spot of humor in the script, by James Vanderbilt, whose widely circulated screenplay of Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies--yet to be made--is a model of compression and clarity. This one, with two main story lines (Toschi's official pursuit and Graysmith's amateur obsession) plus a character count in the high dozens and lots of leads that go nowhere, right up to the end, is necessarily a more sprawling affair. Yet it manages to be true to the complexity of the case while never losing cohesion or coherence...
...quiet desperation: 16-year-olds engaged to elderly men, girls subjected to verbal and physical abuse by fathers and husbands, and so on.Yet the histories of “head-scarf girls” of the Institute are different: these are comparatively privileged girls whose parents support their pursuit of college education. These girls have given the head scarf a particular semiotic significance: it is for them a “symbol of ‘political Islam,’” and they will drop out of school and commit suicide before they will remove it.In...