Word: progressing
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...intermediary to the Palestinian groups Hamas and PIJ, which have traditionally had little contact with either Hezbollah or Tehran. In recent weeks fighting has flared in southern Lebanon between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas. Administration hawks say the attacks show that Iran remains committed to state-sponsored terrorism despite progress by reformers aligned with President Mohammed Khatami. Sources say the Iranian intelligence service, MOIS, which had stepped away from involvement with terrorists, has re-entered the fray by allowing its elite KUDZ force - special teams that support terror - to join in attacks...
...There is no object so foul," Emerson says, "that intense light will not make it beautiful." This aphorism, reflecting the 19th century's core faith in progress and reason, could be the guiding premise behind Roger Martin du Gard's expansive novel, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort. A memoir of the eponymous character, the novel is a testament to reflection and self-examination. Maumort, born in 1870 to an old landowning family in the Perche region of Northern France, strives to illuminate his past while his family estate serves as quarters for a Nazi regiment during the German occupation. Focusing...
...Maumort cut his teeth on algebra, on ideas of scientific progress, on the rules of Greek grammar. In his efforts to account for the events of his life, he spends long passages analyzing the people who were important to him, sounding their virtues and explicating their faults, with deliberately objective scrutiny. He tries to account for every failing, to explore the plausibility of every belief, and his memoirs read almost as a series of complete and independent episodes. Even when he describes the Nazi officials that use his home as a barracks for their squadron, he tries to transcend...
...cited Harvard's rapid progress in the field of Afro-American studies as indicative of the school's potential to create reputable new programs in a short amount of time...
Negotiations are still in progress on whether the small businesses will be allowed to return to their locations after renovations are complete...