Word: towardness
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...brings Renée out of her shell and guides young Paloma toward realizing that not all adults sacrifice their intelligence and humanity to vanity, Barbery demonstrates her own deep love and command of art, philosophy, and literature. Indeed, Elegance can be a bit intimidating when Renée's philosophical references and brainier ruminations run thick. In the end, however, the novel wins over its fans with a life-affirming message, a generous portion of heart and Barbery's frequently wicked sense of humor...
...Since the 1970s, at least 45 states have been forced to grapple with whether their school funding mechanisms are fair to every child. And over time nearly all have moved toward a more equitable means of distributing education dollars. But in a handful of states, courts have quashed such efforts, arguing that state constitutions leave such decisions up to legislatures. Advocates have failed twice before to get more equitable funding in Illinois...
...there anything in the way that she ran against Senator Obama successfully, especially toward the end, that taught you something about how to wage this campaign...
...presence. She followed a tough act, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer, who woke up a drowsy crowd with a barn burner of a speech on - of all things - energy independence. Yet Clinton managed, without a lot of poetry or melodrama, to take the gathered Democrats up another couple of notches toward fever country...
...know what it's a sign of. I would, in the case of both Ukraine and Georgia, I would press for their early...movement on the schedule toward membership in NATO. I don't know what their motives or what reasoning is behind it, that recent announcement that Secretary Rice made...