Word: keens
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...famous words about his life at Harvard, Du Bois might say that the anthology is of Harvard, but not in it. Yet having devoted as much of his life to higher education as he did to the accurate narration of African-American history, Du Bois would have listened with keen interest to the publishing history of Blacks at Harvard...
...Peshawar. In Jalalabad, just up the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, 60% of the population is thought to have fled to the relative safety of mountain villages or across the border into Pakistan. By the weekend there were reports that civilians?how many was a matter of wild dispute?had keen killed in a strike on the eastern village of Karam. And on Saturday the Pentagon confirmed that a smart bomb dropped from an F-18 had missed its target at a Kabul airfield and hit a civilian neighborhood. U.S. officials estimated that four may have died...
...brief, their depth non-existent; they exist to the audience only as they exist to George. Yet George, who skillfully observes his subjects—effortlessly taking them apart and agonizingly putting them back together by painting tiny, meticulous dots on an enormous canvas—cannot use his keen perception to control his own life; he ultimately fails in his relationship with his lover, Dot, who requires more than a lover who “cannot look up from his pad.” The show’s second act takes place a century later and follows...
...book combines anecdotes from her experiences as a reporter with keen analysis of a system gone awry. In one account, she relates how a 30-second game of catch between Michael Dukakis and an aide became a reportable moment, one that the media could use to epitomize the down-to-earth tenacity of the then-presidential candidate. “What we had on the tarmac…was an understanding: a repeated moment witnessed by many people, all of whom believed it to be a setup and yet most of whom believed that only an outsider, only someone...
...Alliance commanders are at least four clothes sizes larger than the rank and file--General Abdul Rahim Abdurahim explains how it works. He has been sending envoys to Kabul to meet with generals who switched sides before the Taliban victory in 1996. It is going well, and they are keen to rejoin the Northern Alliance, he assures us. It is just a matter of time...