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...could have made a safer picture, like Annie Hall. This film is a lot tougher, harder-edged. And it was a bold step for Woody not to be a hero." This, according to another frequent co-star and pal, Tony Roberts, is part of his character. "He seems to strive for some kind of excellence for himself in what he does that keeps him from anything that might smell of smugness...
Fine, a Rhodes scholar, also praised Harvard's approach to athletics. "We strive to be the best, but we are not just athletes. We are student-athletes. That's a better indicator of the success of the program than the won-loss record," he said...
...same time, Muslims are demanding the best of the West: schools, hospitals, technology, agricultural and water development techniques. Harvesting the fruits of modernization without absorbing some of its side-effects may prove to be impossible. But Sheik Mahmoud Abu Obayed of Cairo's Al Azhar University says Muslims should strive for industrialization with "careful selectivity. We must choose what is suitable for us and reject what is harmful." Anwar Ibrahim, head of Malaysia's Islamic Youth Movement, puts it another way: "Does modernization mean having liquor factories? If so, then we are against modernization. Does modernization mean electronics factories? Then...
Catholic educators now strive for "education of the total person, the communication of a faith that is relevant in a secularized world and the creation of a "social awareness that compels one to action," Switzer said...
Divers constantly strive to improve their list--aerialist jargon for the dives that they perform in competition--so as to incorporate dives with higher degrees of difficulty...