Almost any big performance is followed up by an accusation of lip-syncing and a vigorous fact finding mission.
Key to that mission: a more vigorous role for the U.S. government.
Despite the danger and the long odds, the mission had the vigorous support of Americans back home, who saw the Berlin airlift as a heroic refusal to give in to Stalin's tyrannical ambitions.
Mission recommends we pay vigorous attention to the future leadership of these two Departments, as the only way to fix their management will be from the inside.
"Columbia is a complex organization, with an expansive mission, and a tradition of vigorous debate about its future," Mr. Bollinger wrote.
He is still on a mission, as outspoken as ever and nearly as vigorous — thanks, he says, to the heart of a younger man.
An awareness of this led our board in its mission statement to commit the foundation to pursue 'a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.' " He advanced to a slide showing a bullet-point list of the foundation's initiatives.
But the overriding point is that a university has the right to determine that its mission is well served by having students engage in vigorous philosophic, religious, scientific, social and political discussion in their extracurricular activities.
THERE WILL BE DIFFERING VIEWPOINTSThere should be a vigorous domestic debate about the ways, ends, and means surrounding one of the gravest missions a nation can undertake.
The mission of self-scrutiny is never accomplished, but our worthwhile ideals will survive a vigorous skepticism, even if we lose a few illusions about the unique superiority of those ideals along the way.
