Word: keening
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...expanding mission has tactical similarities to the continuing U.S. mission there, fundamentally, the two could not be more different. The U.S. has 19,000 troops in the country, devoted to a particular brand of counterterrorism: search-and-destroy sweeps, intelligence gathering, infiltration, targeted assassination. The Americans have never been keen on "nation building." They have run prts, but only as a second string to the imperative of counterterrorism. The Europeans, on the other hand, are only there for nation building, albeit in a muscular way. They see this as their particular contribution to the long-term eradication of jihadist terrorism...
...have never seen a whale before. It's not something that happens too often in London." LOUISE KEEN, London medical-school administrator, on a northern bottle-nosed whale that drew crowds after becoming stranded in the River Thames. Despite attempts to save the 5-m-long mammal, it later died aboard a rescue vessel
...less love triangle than unrequited love triangle. Plain, earnest pub worker Ella (Sally Hawkins) pines for naive, literary barman Bob (Bryan Dick), who in turn pines for Jenny (Zoë Tapper), a streetwalker who pines for her former self, her lost opportunities and her ability to love. Streets is a keen-eyed, elegantly acted noir drama of heartbreak in alleys and darkened movie houses...
...Numbers The essay by Patricia Marx, "Check Out My New Numbers," with totally made-up statistics about President Bush [Dec. 19], was a real dud. I have no problem with puzzling over the strange mind of W. or with Time's taking up a full page to develop a keen, witty perspective on some topical issue, but Marx's piece was, at best, filler. It seemed like one of those papers I wrote on the school bus on the way to class despite having had two weeks to get it done. Tom Wright Burke, Virginia, U.S. Ramallah's Renaissance...
...Harvard College Scholar for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. He plans to study Jurisprudence at Exeter College at Oxford. “I knew I wanted to study law in England and valued the small tutorial system at Oxford,†he said. Though it was his keen interest in human rights that pushed him in the direction of law, he says he has received most of his intellectual motivation from members of the History department at Harvard. He credits his two thesis advisors as “intellectual inspiration?...