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Though the store's wares are sophisticated, employees strive to make them accessible to everyone, making shopping at the store an educational experience that will expand customers' culinary horizons...
...Seeing] Latinos being successful and expressing themselves makes you want to strive harder," Torres said...
...primary meaning, from the root word jhd, is to strive or exert oneself. . . . What is clear, though, is that striving in the right path involves foremost one's struggle to reorient one's own self to live according to how God would have His creation live," reads the statement prepared...
...Bewdley, Worcestershire. In the introductory session, they learn safety guidelines and how a locomotive works. They also put in time on the footplate--where the fireman and driver stand, stoking the boiler, firing up the engine and managing the controls. In follow-up courses, groups of four students strive to acquire enough skill to drive the locomotive. This involves learning to clean, oil and light up the engine, shunt tracks, couple and uncouple cars--and brake, no easy task. John Sinclair, 54, technical director of a Bedfordshire computer firm, was "quite frightened" during an intermediate course with Severn Valley Railway...
Okay, okay, that's not quite what I meant. Katherine Loker is a fine human being whose remarkable magnanimity has served Harvard in a number of areas, from endowing professorships to renovating Widener Library. We should all strive to be as thoughtful and generous as she. So don't interpret this as some diatribe against Mrs. Loker. Lord knows, I wouldn't want to offend some of you sensitive types out there...