Word: interested
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...Much has been made of the fact that, as things are currently being planned by the Administration, the government will become the largest shareholder in GM and the UAW will be the largest shareholder in Chrysler. Why would taxpayers want to have a controlling interest in a large auto company along with the portfolio of investments that their elected officials have purchased for them at a number of big banks? The issue is a red herring. In the case of Chrysler and GM, federal money is going into the companies and has to be paid back if the restructuring...
...Dalai Lama is a lot more playful than your average Harvard professor, which is one reason his appearance at a Harvard psychology conference on Friday was so entertaining. The Dalai Lama - who at 73 has an agile, mischievous mind and an abiding interest in psychology - accepted Harvard's invitation because he wanted a lively debate about the latest science on mental health. He wanted to play. What he got was an audience of earnest academic worshippers. He played anyway...
...Student Art Show garnered a significant amount of interest, receiving over 500 submissions from the Harvard community. “The amount of interest really blew us away,” Wang says. “Just the sheer number really took us by surprise. Not only the number, but the diversity...
...album Smashing Pumpkins made without him. Bassist Adam Schlesinger and drummer Bun E. Carlos have similarly impressive resumes with Fountains of Wayne and Cheap Trick, respectively; singer Taylor Hanson is the only one whose career does not invite the same kind of respect, and even his presence adds interest, if only for the strangeness of the interaction between his background in teen pop and the backgrounds of his new bandmates.There is no doubt, then, that Tinted Windows makes for an intriguing prospect. But the actual product has little in common with the past achievements of the bandmembers. Tinted Windows...
...Souter himself hadn't hidden from the new Administration his desire to leave. Outsiders had picked up indications: though Souter has always been the last of his colleagues to choose his clerks for the next term, court watchers had focused with increasing interest on the fact that Souter, alone among the justices, still not yet finalized his picks as of late April...