Word: strives
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First, her argument that Harvard would do well to accept mediocrity in athletics is ridiculous. Harvard’s core creed is really to strive for excellence in everything it does; it only admits the best, brightest, and most talented students in the world. I don’t see why athletics should be an exception here. Through its history, Harvard has traditionally been an athletic power in certain sports, such as hockey, squash, and rowing, and its academic reputation has certainly not suffered because of this. Take a school like Stanford, which is widely renowned for being a powerhouse...
Otherwise, the conciliatory pose of "Eirene" might be replaced by increasing strain in the relationships between museums and foreign governments, as museums strive to maintain the status of their antiquities collections and governments assert claims to works that they believe to rightfully be theirs...
...investigations into the matters cannot be predicted, the recruiting clearly went too far and put the reputation of the University at risk. While not all of Amaker’s actions described by the Times deserve condemnation, his general pattern of behavior is troubling. Certainly, Harvard should strive for excellence in athletic as well as academic pursuits, but the latter must always take precedence, and the team should ultimately defer to the greater interests of the University. Whether this requires keeping standards above a certain level, or scaling back on aggressive recruiting to remain beyond reproach, Amaker has a responsibility...
...symbolic; the most popular and effective member of the family, the Queen, is remote, dare one say regal, despite her relentless diary of public engagements. It was Harry's mother Diana, a royal-by-marriage, who engaged with ordinary people in emotionally intelligent ways and encouraged her sons to strive for a kind of über-normality. Yet as she discovered, it's hard to keep it real in the parallel universe that her former in-laws inhabit. Their palaces are packed with treasures, and swarm with valets and equerries, butlers and footmen; yet it's anything but a luxurious...
...prompts for the reader to consider rather than a set of answers neatly handed to her on a platter. Millhauser’s characters wade through his stories thirsting to perceive a world beyond the limitations of their senses and their environment, like Plato’s cave dwellers striving to conceptualize an unseen world. The key to this—or, rather, the key to one of the many consecutive locked doors leading to this—seems to be that of painstaking observation: unlocking the imagination lies in seeing, hearing, and feeling the world to its fullest...