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...Whatever form vacation takes, we keep on doing it - we may even want to do it more to escape all the talk of terror and war. We are escapaholics convinced that this time we will definitely "get away from it all," returning to the office slimmer, tanned and desperately keen to read a spread sheet. The Great European Vacation lives on because, as with sex, anticipation often beats act, all that foreplay with brochures, bookings, tickets, servicing the car and the children's orthodontics, packing suitcases, trying to get into last year's bathing suit and, above all, counting down...
...year-old Jordan shared his keen anatomical observation on the Major Deegan Expressway while we were on the bus to Camp Hillard, a day camp in Scarsdale, N.Y., where I’ve worked for the past two summers. Jordan wasn’t fazed by my imposing title of “bus captain”—instead, he and his rising first-grade compadres continually shouted out jiggly-centered jibes and poked me as I carefully sidestepped up and down the aisle of the bus. I had to bite my lips to keep from laughing...
...interview with TIME last week, Bremer, dressed in an ensemble befitting a Washington power broker in a war zone--pinstripe suit, red tie, white pocket square, combat boots--was keen to emphasize the coalition's successes but seemed all too aware of growing Iraqi impatience. "Saddam took 35 years to run the place down, and it's not going to take 35 days to fix it. People need to be patient. And I know that's hard when the temperature's 124 and the electricity goes off. But that's the message, and that's the only message there...
...been proven to reach out very effectively to all student constituencies,” said Buell. “He’s keen to teach and he’s had great success teaching, from freshmen to a graduate school level,” he said...
...attacking non-U.S. coalition forces, the insurgents may also be trying to discourage others from entering Iraq. India, for example, has been sharply divided on whether to send troops: While some in the government are keen to ingratiate New Delhi with the U.S. by going in, others warn that it's a no-win commitment that will imperil India's standing in the Arab world...