Word: quests
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...part memoir, it details Folman's odyssey to retrieve the lost memories of his youth as a bewildered soldier under fire in Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon war. Through flashbacks, visits to a psychiatrist and stories told by old war buddies, Folman's animated self follows his real-life quest to remember what happened. (See pictures from the best anime movies...
...VIEW OF RHEE AND REFORMERS like her, the struggle to fix America's failing school system comes down to a simple question: How do you get the best teachers and principals to work in the worst schools? In her quest to figure this out, Rhee has already suffered a major setback. Earlier this year, she proposed a revolutionary new model to let teachers choose between two pay scales. They could make up to $130,000 in merit pay on the basis of their effectiveness--in exchange for giving up tenure for one year. Or they could keep tenure and accept...
...kills some of the fun. Sitting in your pj's doing keyword searches for Pez dispensers is not the same as pulling off the road to explore a junk store and finding a prize. Collecting involves more than just buying a full set of something. It is the quest for a family reunion: the posters for all 15 Houdini movies from 1919, all 177 pieces of a Minton dinner set. There's the possibility of failure and the hope for immortality. That helps explain why we have 17,500 museums in America alone, ranging from the Getty and the Whitney...
...looks different to the various countries in terms of its merits,” said Kennedy School Professor Robert N. Stavins, the co-director of the policy group. “We feel that we should provide information to the countries of the world to help them in their quest to design a post-Kyoto Protocol policy...
...that it had been given an at-large bid to the tournament. Harvard will face No. 25 University of Massachusetts (10-7-3) in the first round tomorrow at noon in Amherst, MA.This is the third consecutive year that the Crimson will join the field of 48 in the quest to reach the pinnacle of collegiate soccer. The team knows from experience that nothing will be easy from here on out.A year ago, Harvard gained an at-large selection, but was upset by Central Connecticut State in the first round. In 2006, the Crimson got past the opening round, defeating...