Word: towards
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Redmond is not blind to the council's role as a provider of and lobbier for student services. She firmly supports providing money to student groups, and is committed to quality-of-life improvements. But Redmond recognizes that the vice-president must speak louder and work toward larger goals. If elected, she will keep up efforts to interest students from all backgrounds in the council and energize the fight for Faculty diversity...
...could outpaint anybody, at least until the mid-'60s, when he began to lose it." But Diebenkorn's friendship with the Bay Area painter David Park, who bravely refused to accept the reigning dictum in the American avant-garde that radicalism had to mean abstraction, pointed him still closer toward the figurative...
Harry Connick Jr. has long viewed himself as something of a Sinatra for the '90s. Although he broke into jazz a decade ago as a solo pianist influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum, his career veered sharply toward big-band and string-arranged music after his 1989 sound track, When Harry Met Sally, went multi-platinum. When his version of the classic It Had to Be You--with Connick singing--became a hit, he began moving his repertoire closer toward pop, writing, as he did on 1991's Blue Light, Red Light, jaunty big-band tunes that echoed...
...democracy that allows absolutist thinkers like Hersh to handle history the way Geraldo handles news is the same democracy that forces leaders to compromise consistently as they work toward important goals. Hersh's version of the truth seems to come from a mind as immoral as those he rails against. JIM MURPHY Senior Broadcast Producer, 48 Hours CBS News New York City
...blamed for things that it has nothing to do with. Instead of focusing on the hype and rhetoric surrounding El Nino, the U.S. should reflect on the underlying causes of global warming and cooperate to slow or eliminate them. If they fail to do this, humanity will be headed toward a disaster of biblical proportions. By burning the rain forests, freely using fossil fuels and increasing the pollution from motor vehicles, mankind may one day create a hell on earth, where fertile regions, such as lush tropical rain forests, become uninhabitable deserts. CHRISTIAN ZALAI London...