Word: avidity
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Though his political reputation has been somewhat sullied by the results of the primary campaign in his state, Governor A. Paul Cellucci, an avid Bush supporter, was greeted with cheers and whistles when he began to address the crowd...
...delight of most reformers, however, Ganji--an unabashed partisan of President Mohammed Khatami's, an avid reader of Western philosophy and the son of a gas-station attendant--refuses to avert his eyes. A street activist during Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolution, he now insists that building Iran's democracy entails acknowledging the Islamic regime's past mistakes. Whether Ganji will be able to continue his campaign is a crucial test for Iran's reformers as they maneuver against the hard-line conservatives who maintain control over the security forces and judicial system. If Ganji manages to remain alive...
...change is but a click away. Sign up and type in your personal interests; the site decides which ads you'll like and sends them to you. If you read them, you get paid. Your profits can range from 20[cents] to $2.50 per ad. The company estimates that avid readers could make up to $300 a year. Where's the money from? Advertisers, who want to know you're there...
...abroad do exist, as Paul M. Tselentis '03 reports. In South Africa, shifty characters loitering on street corners late at night are the ones sporting the haircut. Wai Tim Yu '03 tells of the occasional mullet for the purpose of a rebellious image in his native Hong Kong. An avid frequenter of Australia's Gold Coast, Yu notes that the mullet is much more common in the Land Down Under. There, he declares, the attitude can be summed up as "mullet for the sake of mullet...
...coping with the aging process is to do things you did when you were young: table-tennis, birthday parties, sing-alongs. Anxieties about genuine nostalgia have resulted in the avid manufacture of camp, so that in a world where things are born old, we can at least have some fun. One reason for the popularity of Young British Artists in the past couple of years is that they help us rethink our affection for pure camp by asking a simple but all-important question--is it possible for a work of art to be just plain weird? Can art cultivate...