Word: avid
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...ethnicity was a more potent predictor of political behavior than social class. He outraged liberals by insisting that too many black children were being raised without fathers; he outraged conservatives by opposing Clinton's welfare reform because he didn't want to see those children hurt. He was an avid patriot and anticommunist, especially when he served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. He drank like a fish, wrote like a dream and stood in the Senate like Cicero. He is irreplaceable. --By Joe Klein
...White House in 1995 and was able to meet Bill Clinton he felt “a certain sense of inspiration—“He presented himself as someone real,” he says. About his mother’s secretarial assistance, he reminds an avid history student that Winston Churchill, Nelson Rockefeller and Woodrow Wilson, among other luminaries, all had secretaries. And though his mother is no longer his secretary, she is still supportive. “I could be a poet laureate or president of the United States. She just wants me to pick something...
Wendy, 35, a free-lance editor, and a fellow tagger, Alex, scout a neighborhood of well-kept brownstones for half an hour before they choose their first target: a deep green Toyota Land Cruiser (estimated city m.p.g.: 13). Alex, 39, an avid cyclist and musician, peers up and down the street before peeling off the protective paper and slapping the Toyota's bumper with a sticker that proclaims, "I'm Changing the Climate! Ask Me How!" and gives the website address of Changing the Climate changingtheclimate.com) based in San Francisco. The group has sold 40,000 of the stickers...
...what happens when we take the romance of travel one step further and settle down. The 26 stories read like an abridged edition of the past two decades' most popular travel books, with excerpts from Paul Theroux's Sunrise with Seamonsters and Pico Iyer's The Global Soul. For avid travel readers these will be old friends; for those new to the genre, it's a great way to catch...
...recently proposed capital campaign to rebuild the MAC, however, may not be as successful as hoped—after all, one of the main reasons Harvard pays so little attention to non-varsity athletes is that avid intramural gladiators and recreational exercisers just don’t get alumni donors excited the way varsity fullbacks pounding old Eli into the ground every November...