Word: keene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Meyer has a reputation for crossing traditional barriers between non-profit organizations and their money managers. At Rockefeller, the young money manager surprised his colleagues by showing a keen interest in the prestigious Foundation programs...
...Walesa's keen political sense that has propelled him to the leadership of the Solidarity movement, the visiting scholar said...
...students in the class of 1994. "This is ridiculous," scoffs an athletically built freshman standing to one side of the mayhem. "My parents are spending $20,000 a year for this?" Moments later, he is engrossed in a finger-painting version of charades, his haughty disdain replaced by keen concentration as he tries to make his teammates guess what he is drawing...
Joseph R. Palmore doesn't seem too keen on the recent campaign of the Lubbock, Texas school board to rid student attire of various "satanic symbols" ["The Devil Went Down to Texas," Sept. 12]. Fair enough. In my 18 years growing up in Lubbock, the school board managed to do many a foolish thing. Regrettably, however, Palmore's lampoon leaves his Harvard readers with the impression that our hometown (Palmore is from Lubbock, too) is some sort of theocratic backwater, a place where decency and common sense are casualties of the ongoing struggle against "the Evil One." This is simply...
...Corporation has not issued a set of required prerequisites for the new president, but he or she should have a distinguished intellect and be a recognized scholar," the statement said. "The president also must be a strong leader, and have a keen sense of management and a deep concern for Harvard and for higher education...