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...wrote to friends, to his children, his brother--as well as to people he had never met, simply because they had written to him. Notice how many times he opened a letter with an apology for having taken a while to respond. He came from humble beginnings--an eager, determined, dream-filled boy in the flat endless miles of the Midwest. He was taught to be polite, and he never forgot that...
...communications chief, for "sexing up" the September dossier on Iraq's weapons. BBC managers, reeling under a ferocious assault from Campbell, looked hapless as they described a stout defense of Gilligan mounted without checking the foundations of his report. Excerpts from Campbell's diary released last week showed how eager he was to "out" Kelly after he advised his bosses he didn't think what he told Gilligan could possibly be the source of the "sexing up" claim: "GH [Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon] and I agreed it would f___ Gilligan if [Kelly] was his source," read one. But the real...
Many in the mass of eager would-be contestants staked out a spot in Loker a few hours before the 10-question trivia quiz, which would determine who had the knowledge to move on to the national competition...
Paul Krugman came to The New York Times’ op-ed page as an economist, not a liberal guru. But try telling that to the enthusiastic crowd who packed the pews of Cambridge’s First Parish Church last Friday, eager to see the man described by the National Review Online’s Donald Luskin as “America’s most dangerous liberal pundit...
Johnson, a 6’ 2” sophomore out of Tustin, Calif., spent his freshman campaign watching from the sidelines. After not appearing in one game last year, he was eager to take advantage of any opportunity that came his way—even if it meant switching positions...