Word: quests
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...most sports reporters probably develop an affinity for the teams they cover (if it didn’t exist already)—the reigning-in of oneself is even more difficult when the team playing is representing the institution that you yourself are part of.Moreover, this quest for professionalism is further hampered by our close interaction with the subjects that we cover. Like “real” journalists, we develop working relationships with the coaches and the athletes whom we interview. But our relationships are more tangled. Not only do we see these athletes on the court...
Hudlin credits the Harvard social scene in his quest for self-discovery...
...occupation, Sistani's call for calm undoubtedly allowed American troops to avoid fierce resistance to their presence in southern Iraq. But Sistani's repeated appeals for peace lost their weight as sectarian violence rose in Iraq, with Sadr leading the Mahdi Army militia in an inexorable year-long quest for Shi'ite revenge following the bombing of a revered shrine in Samarra in early 2006. As a result, Sadr, a mere cleric, towered as the most powerful Shi'ite figure in Iraq, eclipsing the more senior Sistani's prestigious status as ayatollah. Sistani became a voice in the wings...
...book is at its weakest during Lee's ill-conceived - and entirely gratuitous - quest to discover the world's greatest Chinese restaurant outside greater China. The restaurant reviews clash with the rest of the book's anthropological depth, and Lee's search is maddeningly shallow. (Just one restaurant in Paris?) By the end of this chapter, most readers won't care which restaurant won the title...
...That quest for identity is ever present. Is Israel a Jewish state or a state for Jews? Is religion more important than national identity? Examined closely, Israel more resembles a mosaic than a real country: the black-hatted ultra-Orthodox are at odds with the beach boys of Tel Aviv; the Jews who fled Europe feel superior to those who flooded in from North Africa and the Middle East; the latecomers--Russians (many of them not practicing Jews) and Ethiopians--are still struggling to fit in; and the Israeli Arabs, who constitute 20% of the population, complain that they...