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...went up, dozens of Washington's media elite (bureau chiefs, New York Times columnists, magazine editors) began to nonchalantly position themselves for an audience with Gore, forming an consciously indifferent crowd that engaged in minimalist small talk while waiting for the moment to edge in. Everyone was at once eager to be noticed and trying not to be too obvious, a gaggle of awkward preeners whose self-presentation wouldn't get past the first walk-off on "America's Next Top Model...
...carpet promenade. It was the same today, when a flying wedge of security guards hustled Tom Hanks into the Da Vinci Code press conference past a couple hundred photographers. This is catnip to the Festival administration, which gets free worldwide publicity from the stars. No one is more eager for Angelina Jolie to have her baby early than Fremaux; if she does, Brad Pitt may show up here for his movie A Scanner Darkly...
Volunteers and workers at non-profit charities do not consider themselves immune to criticism; in fact, those of us who volunteer our time at non-profits are eager to critically examine our own practices and to learn how to do our work more efficiently, quickly, and effectively...
...Nicaragua in the 1980s, is fast becoming a destination for foreign leftists. As a diplomatic battle between Venezuela and the U.S. intensifies - with Washington banning any arms sales to Chavez and his government in turn threatening to sell fighter jets to Iran - Americans unhappy with the Bush Administration are eager to witness with their own eyes Chavez's oil-funded socialist revolution...
...Fakewatch When a team at China's Shanghai Jiaotong University announced in 2003 that it had developed a sophisticated microprocessor for mobile phones and MP3 players, it was hailed as a major step forward for a nation eager to move beyond low-cost manufacturing and piracy. But following an investigation, the school announced last week that the capabilities of the Hanxin-or "China chip"-were exaggerated, and that it relied on copied technology. The university dismissed Chen Jin, above, the project's head and dean of its microelectronics school, accusing him of "serious falsification." The technology may have been...