Word: eagerness
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...eager East Asian tourists who populate the Yard usually get little better than a grumble from Harvard students. In fact, Chuck Houston, head teaching fellow for Psychology 15, “Introduction to Psychology,” said that a recent study found that Harvard students are much more likely to walk in front of a tourist taking a picture of John Harvard if the tourist is Asian...
...American politician most beloved in China arrived in Beijing on Monday, flanked by a 79-strong delegation of businessmen, lobbyists and anyone else eager to cash in on the Chinese economic miracle. Back home, there was much talk about how the trip to the Middle Kingdom would divert attention from the U.S. leader's political woes, as his popularity polls sunk to record lows. But in China, he reveled in a red-carpet welcome and greeted screaming schoolchildren who lined his path just to catch a glimpse of their hero. No, this wasn't President George W. Bush-who will...
...dangerous than Azahari, says Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the International Crisis Group. What's more, adds terrorism expert Zachary Abuza of the United States Institute of Peace, Azahari has been passing his skills to a new generation of bombmakers who will be "only too eager to show their skills and avenge their teacher's death." Indeed, last Friday security forces found a videotape with instructions in bombmaking at a Semarang house they suspect was recently occupied by Nurdin. Police say the tape also contained statements by the Oct. 1 Bali suicide bombers in which they...
...were eager to play at [the Bulldogs] and control the pace,” Weiss said. “Mainly the idea was to serve them out of their system, so if they were tentative, we had them off-balance...
Yamani never called, but he was in the minority. Gaghan was stunned by how eager people were to chat with him. "You're on the boat of the head of military intelligence for a North African nation. This man is worldly. And when the conversation turns to me, it's, 'Do you know Leonardo DiCaprio?'" Besides being fascinated by fame and flattered by Gaghan's interest in the Middle East, most believed themselves experts on the movie business; they pitied Gaghan because, as everyone knows, so few scripts ever get filmed. "That mix of interest and condescension was really useful...