Word: seeks
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...Native Americans at Harvard seek the University's support. They say they don't look for individual endorsement, but rather for acknowledgment of their people's place in both the fore-ground and background of the United States...
...James Wood, an Arkansas lawyer who became the first political appointee to head the American Institute on Taiwan, the unofficial U.S. embassy there. Natale Bellochi, Wood's predecessor as ait chairman, and Taiwan businessmen had reportedly informed the State Department that the Arkansan was improperly using his post to seek campaign donations for Clinton. Wood denies the charge...
Something akin to this game of hide-and-seek with public symbols happened with his target paintings. Everyone "knows" what a target is--a test of a marksman's skill. But beneath its muteness a target is supercharged with an imagery of aggression: every target implies a weapon and someone aiming. This had an inescapable point in the mid-'50s, when politicians and all the American media were pounding into the collective imagination, like a 10-in. spike, the message that the whole nation was a target for Russian thermonuclear weapons...
...Mother Night. Words, after all, have real consequences. The value of espionage, on the other hand, is never easily provable--especially in Campbell's case. When, years after the war, it is discovered that he is still alive, the Soviets, the Israelis and the American neo-Nazis all seek to use him for their own purposes, and there is no one to corroborate his story...
...streets." Yet they felt that even that much was a significant contribution to our world. I would also love to hear what the beneficiaries of our programs have to say. If the author wants to determine the efficacy of PBHA, it would behoove her to ask those whom we seek to serve...