We are not talking about the kind of economic outsourcing that Donald Trump promises to end if president (even though his own line of suits is manufactured overseas), we are talking about how desires can be fulfilled across different relationships.
But being the big art elephant in our culture they are certainly worthy of our curiosity, the desire to understand how they came about, how they were made, what makes them work, and what makes them work on us.
Like those two disparate arguments, "Remembering What Never Happened" ultimately is about the miracle of desire -- about how enduring passion pretty much trumps everything.
COPUS was developed because university observation programs needed a protocol to: 1) characterize the general state of teaching, 2) provide feedback to instructors who desired information about how they and their students were spending class time, and 3) identify faculty professional development needs.
His books are less about espionage than they are about human frailty and desire; they're about how we are, all of us, spies of a sort.
As you sink into the richness of the world "Justified" has built up over four seasons, take a minute, if you so desire, to think about how difficult those kinds of things are for most TV shows.
As I tried to identify my needs and desires, I thought about how I ended up on the research track to begin with; and I recalled that I initially became a pharmacologist because I was fascinated by the complexity of the human body, I was intrigued by the design and use of drugs to alter our physiologic state, and I wanted to keep myself informed about current trends in disease management.
"It's about how desire leads to destruction," Weihui said.
He says that he was motivated not only by curiosity but also by a desire for actionable knowledge about how to live.
Over the past ten years or so, governments' desire to know more about how their schools compare with others, and what lessons can be learned from the comparison, have begun to outweigh fear of embarrassment.
'What was unique about 1968 was that people were rebelling over disparate issues and had in common only that desire to rebel, ideas about how to do it, a sense of alienation from the established order and a profound distaste for authoritarianism.' But it was not planned, Kurlansky adds, and it was not organised.
