Samantha Del Core hoped to work in interior design, and Lauren Hughes wanted to be a journalist.
And as the year progresses, parts of the right will continue to wage a campaign against the common core, hoping to gain influence and even to move forward a more radical agenda.
Scientists gather for a first look at a fresh sediment core, hoping that it will offer hard data linking environmental change to human evolution.
Barack Obama's tremendously galvanizing 2008 campaign was premised around a core of hope, the hope for transformative change that could erase smallness and stagnation and travail.
Ali's great strength in her previous novels, "In the Kitchen" and "Brick Lane," and also in "Untold Story," is the way she circles her characters, using various perspectives to strip them down to their core fears, hopes and motivations.
"I know some people might say, 'He is an evil guy, rotten to the core, I hope he burns at the stake,' " Mr. Belfort said.
Twists abound, satiric wallops are doled out, the plot zips along like an airport novel -- and glowing at the center of it all is a core of hope: we can rise above the absurdity of racial divides if we can all just ease up and get a bit more real.
In fact, Microsoft has made gaining market share in the telecommunications market one of its core goals, hoping to make its Windows 2000 operating system the leading platform in service providers and carrier networks.
Deep within the core of hope is the belief that things can change, turn out better.
At the core, I hope to relay something about myself and my experience and my perspective on the world around me," he says.
