Word: keenness
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...face on issues. A staff member since 1985, he has produced trenchant essays on Michael Dukakis' failed presidential aspirations and a moving account of a hometown reception given the body of a young Marine, one of the first American casualties of the Persian Gulf war. Riley also has a keen eye for the nuances of tangled race relations. Raised in Charlotte, N.C., and educated at Wake Forest University, he worked at the Dispatch in Lexington, N.C., where he covered his first cross burning. Mike then went north to study at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government before coming...
...Keen Quartet...
...from new voters? Not even Bush's top advisers know for sure. For now, they say, Perot is drawing votes almost exclusively from the ranks of disaffected, but largely registered, Democrats and Republicans -- not the disenfranchised. But that could change, and if it does, the White House isn't keen to make registration simpler...
...project that I was serious about the campaign," she says, "and that had its own effect. I saw myself less as the bluestocking and more the person trying to communicate that we have an office here that can represent what is modern about Ireland. I was so keen to get that across that I would have done whatever it took...
Ringo will be 52 next month, and now there's reason to celebrate. After a fitful movie career and some of the marital and chemical troubles mandatory for all aging rock stars, Ringo is back -- clean, keen and on tour with an All-Starr band that includes Todd Rundgren, Joe Walsh and Nils Lofgren. And as his first album in nine years proves, he is back in the 1960s. The songs for Time Takes Time, all new, sound beamed from some long-ago Top 40 station that plays only early, previously unheard Beatles songs...