Word: quests
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...lead anywhere. Not only was there no resolution of the basic issues dividing the two sides, which could hardly have been expected, but there was no hint of progress toward resolution, a more reasonable hope. How American plans to develop space-based strategic defenses can be reconciled with the quest for deep reductions in strategic offenses remains as much of a conundrum as ever. An American negotiator who is a regular at the ongoing arms-control talks in Geneva remarked, "It's nice to have our bosses wish us luck and urge us to do our best, but the nitty...
...York, but the bloody street battles delayed his departure. On Friday morning he told reporters that although he had made progress in his efforts to free the hostages and felt that "a good measure of mutual trust has been established," he still faced "grave difficulties" in his quest. Finally, on Sunday, he escaped the street fighting and headed to New York City, where he was scheduled to report to U.S. officials on his progress before returning to Beirut this week...
...question is, Will we inevitably be enemies? No, it's not inevitable." The goal for Washington is to manage China's rise in ways that peacefully incorporate a new force into the global system. The goal for China is to protect itself from yet another false start on its quest of modernization. Neither nation will satisfy its objectives unless there is a clear-eyed sense of where China has been and where it is going. That is not simply a matter of understanding China's formal centers of power. What matters in China today is happening on the ground...
...would someone in full clown regalia wander--like a child into a war zone--through the streets of a toxic inner city? Is he on a quest for instant martyrdom? No. He's Tommy Johnson, an ex-drug dealer now known as Tommy the Hip-Hop Clown, and he's recruiting some of the best local talent of South Central Los Angeles to help create a frenetic, feel-good style of dance called clowning. Missionaries of optimism, they go about, one clowner says, "making smiles where there were no smiles, laughter where there was no laughter," and turning the meanest...
...Renaissance literature expert, Reeves might be an improbable figure to lead a broad-based human rights advocacy movement. And in recent months, Reeves has found even more unlikely allies in his quest: the three members of Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR...