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...According to the grapevine, Chopra has been organizing a large low-stakes poker tournament. These days, instead of gambling with his political capital, he’s gambling with paltry amounts of money. And instead of calling the bluffs of the keenest administrative minds in the United States, he’s calling the bluffs of some dudes in Mather house...
...three of the four men who will ride for the Crimson today were on the team that won the Intercollegiate title last year. A last minute switch prevented Harvard from putting its entire championship team in the field. All are veteran campaigners however, thoroughly seasoned for competition of the keenest sort...
From the second she strolled into the Sanctum last fall, Rachel proved herself to be one of FM’s keenest minds. She comes to meetings with ideas galore, usually concerning subject-matter that is way over everyone else’s head but brilliant in its humanity...
...caliphs, the successors to Muhammad who ruled Islam's domain from the 7th century to the 13th. What might a caliphate look like today? In bin Laden's view, it would look something like the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which he has praised as "among the keenest to fulfill [Allah's] laws." Bin Laden may imagine himself to be a potential new caliph. One of the titles he uses is "emir," which means ruler. However, he swears allegiance to (and thereby ranks himself below) the Taliban ruler, Mullah Mohammed Omar, so whatever political ambitions bin Laden may have...
What went wrong? Eiland has one of the army's keenest analytical minds. He speaks almost entirely in neatly memorized lists, usually organized in fives. His clear, blue eyes don't blink as he runs through the army's mistakes. Foremost is Israel's failure to acquire nonlethal weapons for riot control. At riots on the edges of every Palestinian town, the army progresses quickly from tear gas to rubber-coated metal bullets to live ammunition--though Eiland says the last step comes only when a soldier feels his life is clearly in danger or when Palestinians open fire...