Word: ardente
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...deem, as Rumsfeld does, calls from some Iraqi Shiite clergy for a theocratic government in Baghdad as signs of Iranian meddling is simplistic. The most ardent advocates of that view are followers of Moqtada al-Sadr, who remained inside Iraq under Saddam's repression and are disdainful of rivals who chose exile in Iran. They may have some backing from elements in Iran, but their movement is essentially homegrown. By contrast, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which had been based in Tehran for the past 23 years and whose militia was trained by Iran's hard...
Mimi surfaced in a roundabout way. At the Kennedy Library, author Robert Dallek, when writing his new J.F.K. biography, An Unfinished Life, came across an oral history done in 1964 by one of the gentlest, most ardent Kennedy supporters in existence, Barbara Gamarekian. In it Gamarekian, who had worked in the White House press office and later became a reporter for the New York Times, talks about Mimi; but she had embargoed that section of her reminiscences. Dallek persuaded her to release...
...science reporter Gina Kolata. Her preference is "spinning," a brutal workout on a stationary bike, which she describes in detail in her new book, Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Kolata does many tasks in her book, describing her life as an ardent exerciser, tracing the history of working out ("Eating alone will not keep a man well," said Hippocrates in 400 B.C. "He must also take exercise") and debunking popular claims (e.g., endorphins and running highs are overrated, she says). Kolata concludes that exercise is more often a marker of health than...
It’s 11 p.m. in Cabot library, and all but the most ardent nerds have headed home for the night. I head for the men’s room, but there’s no one in there, so I check my crusty moustache in the mirror and then head for the women’s room. Also empty...
...issue itself up to Alan Dershowitz; I want simply to offer some thoughts on Harvard’s biggest divestment exponents. When I first began to follow The Crimson’s divestment coverage, a couple of things struck me as odd: first, the movement’s most ardent supporters at Harvard are neither Jewish nor Arab and, second, almost none of them seems to have a direct academic interest in that part of the world or its politics—many are members of Harvard’s Psychology, Classics and Linguistics Departments. Now, of course anyone...