Word: avidity
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...there he was onstage next to Clinton the night before Halloween and not exactly dressed as an assassin. He took his shots, judiciously - and more comfortably as the evening wore on. But Obama wasn't nearly as avid or effective as John Edwards, whose soft Southern accent can camouflage an awful lot of aggression. For most of the debate, Clinton was able to deflect the attacks, mostly by professing her fierce and limitless desire to reverse the depredations of the Bush Administration. But just when it was beginning to seem that her evasions were more potent than her opponents' assaults...
...Police questioned Britain's Prince Harry as part of an investigation into the killing of two rare hen harriers last week at the royal family's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England a spokesperson at Clarence House confirmed Wednesday. The prince, an avid outdoorsman, and an unidentified friend were nearby when the birds were shot, and press reports have suggested the two were the only hunters on the estate at the time...
...melodies of Liszt, Schubert, and the Harvard Krokodiloes filled the vaulted chamber of Memorial Church last night as students, faculty, and others gathered to bid farewell to music lover and avid public servant Henry C. Fienning ’06-’08. Fienning’s favorite pieces of music were interspersed with accounts of his warmth, compassion, and dedication to service. “Henry was an exceptional human being,” said Leone E. Price ’06, a close friend of Fienning. He was “one of those rare people with...
...Rodger Kamenetz helped shift the spiritual center of liberal Judaism. His book The Jew in the Lotus combined the chronicle of a delegation of Jews visiting the Dalai Lama with an investigation into the possibilities for meditative mysticism in a Jewish context. The avid curiosity it provoked helped launch a thousand Kabbalah classes. Kamenetz's follow-up, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters, won the National Jewish Book Award. But his latest offering, The History of Last Night's Dream, diverges in content and tone. TIME's David Van Biema wondered whether he was straying from...
...graduated cum laude and wrote his thesis about the impact of television on the presidential campaign. Richard Hyland ’69, a fellow Dunster House resident who was active in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), told The Crimson in 1999 that he remembered Gore as an avid baseball fan. “I remember going down to the Dunster House Grille late at night,” Hyland said. “He’d be there watching the ballgame. I had a sense that he spent the ’60s watching the ball game...