Word: keenness
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...filmed in Bombay; Sri Lanka gave permission, then changed its mind. The project lay dormant until Rushdie was approached by the RSC. They'd seen director Supple's 1998 production of another Rushdie work, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, at the Royal National Theatre, and were keen to bring the two men together again. Supple, who worked on the stage adaptation with Rushdie and Simon Reade, says they wrestled with the scale of the book: "We had to make it clear, vivid, exciting and simple enough to play onstage." In the end, they had to lose several important characters...
Since Sept. 11, the 48-year-old had muzzled her grief about the bureaus failures--specifically, about how it ignored cries from her office to take seriously the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-Moroccan who spoke poor English and had signed up at a local flight school, keen to fly a 747. Eight months after the attacks, Rowley and others got a chance to tell what they knew. Staff members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees joint inquiry into the attacks invited her and others to come to Washington for a private interview...
...tendencies of its warlords, peace in Afghanistan is never easily kept--is in the hands of the non-American soldiers in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), whose leadership is about to pass from Turkey to a joint German-Dutch command. Until very recently, the Pentagon seemed anything but keen to see ISAF's mission extended beyond Kabul, to which it is limited. Yet if a new Afghan nation is to be built, its writ will need to run in more places than the capital city...
...word “KEEN,” one moves in many directions and each letter cube is used no more than once. After three minutes are up, players compare their list of words found—if more than one player has found the same word, all must strike it from their list. Words found by only one player are assigned scores: 1 point for a four-letter word, 2 points for a five-letter word...
Courting Ms. Carmon was a nerve-wracking process, since she was essentially pilfered from another department here at The Crimson. Would she like FM? Would she return FM’s calls? As it turned out, Irin was immediately infatuated with the mag. Her refreshing prose and keen nose for moving and hilarious details enliven FM’s takes on everything from dating to finding God at Harvard. FM is very excited to take the relationship to the next level...