Word: succeeded
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...Pride and Prejudice” was a failure for me, but for many other, more open-minded viewers he invigorated a worn and familiar story. Sometimes it’s necessary for an adaptation to be less true to the book if it is to succeed in its new medium. With “Atonement,” Wright may have found a story that can bridge the two media without any such sacrifice. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...
...Unfortunately, he was about as gentle as a steel wool thong. The scalding bikini wax that he injudiciously administered on the Harvard community did succeed in galvanizing a large constituency around a common cause, but since that cause was himself it was doomed to be rather short-lived...
...students, faculty, and administrators alike, Harvard is long years of jumping through some very expensive hoops. Most of us try to do it while getting in as little trouble as possible and, as the Class of 1967 recognizes, we tend to succeed...
...Russia is far from complete. The parliamentary elections that took place on Sunday, which cemented the power of the autocratic Russian President Vladimir Puttin, were nothing but a tragic comedy. Putin’s party won the election—a run up to the presidential election to succeed Putin in title, but likely not power, next March—in a landslide. United Russia gained a projected 315 seats in the 450-seat Duma. By contrast, the Communist Party, which remains the largest opposition party will hold a paltry 57 seats. The process was even more disturbing than...
...National Security Adviser, Stephen Hadley, rushed to assure the media that the glass was half full. "The estimate offers grounds for hope that the problem can be solved diplomatically - without the use of force - as the Administration has been trying to do," said Hadley. "For that strategy to succeed, the international community has to turn up the pressure on Iran - with diplomatic isolation, United Nations sanctions, and with other financial pressure - and Iran has to decide it wants to negotiate a solution...