Word: keening
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...worse still, with Motorola's iTunes-friendly cell phone expected to launch this week. Hooked up to company machines, the devices can introduce viruses, or, more likely, be used to download confidential files. Armed with a 20-GB iPod, a disgruntled employee - or even an outgoing staff member keen to retain contacts - could nab an entire client database, according to computer-security firm Centennial Software. Late last year, one London recruitment agency worker poached the firm's client base with his iPod, before launching a rival company. So what's the company IT boss to do? Squeezing superglue into...
...homeownership plan the government will be keen to promote. Two illegal immigrants from El Salvador took possession last week of a 70-acre Arizona ranch as part of a civil judgment against a vigilante leader who allegedly threatened them with a gun when he caught them sneaking into the U.S. in March 2003. The immigrants said the ordeal left them with posttraumatic stress, a condition that seems to be spreading fast on the Mexico-U.S. boundary. To wit: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano declared a state of emergency last week because, she said, "the Federal Government has failed" to secure...
...lived till I was 11 and where my grandparents still lived. I had planned to go on to Anna, Ill., to call on my friend, an attractive, petite brunet I'd dated in high school in Houston. After two years of love letters to her, I was keen to discover whether her feelings for me matched mine...
ROBERT EARL KEEN...
Many a song has been written about Hank Williams, but this is the first in which he plays a bar in drag and his mascara runs. Williams' fans should give a close listen before they shout for Keen's scalp; his mix of irony, folk and honky-tonk is a tribute to Hank's influence...