Word: keens
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...outrage. Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who would have been forced to surrender his immensely powerful position in 2004 under the old rules, ostensibly excused himself from the vote and claims he did not pressure lawmakers on the issue. But he was undoubtedly watching each member's vote with keen interest. Indeed, shortly after the vote, loyal lieutenants were given choice committee assignments and leadership roles, while opponents were exiled to backwater posts...
...Everyone recognized that she has a very keen intellect. One of the things that stood out was that Professor Sullivan was a member of a subset of [HLS] professors to whom students could readily relate," says Ross S. Antonson, who served as one of HLS's 1992 class marshals and is now a senior attorney at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis...
...animals: class war. For generations, land-owning toffs have used foxhunting as a means to socialize among their peers and look down (literally) on the peasants below. Banning foxhunting has therefore been a dream of English class warriors for years. It taps deep veins of resentment that Blair is keen to exploit as he gears up for a spring election. Like the New Democrats, New Labourites are worried that their co-opting of many conservative themes has offered their constituency very little enticement. Sure, Blair has an easy lead in the polls, but that could vanish if turnout...
...hope they were able to get their deposits back.) "What most intrigues me about Bush is how he uses low expectations to his advantage," Jay says. "His opponents judge him by his sometimes awkward public performances and fail to realize that he is a shrewd judge of character with keen political instincts." Both reporters have family connections to their new assignment. Jay's wife Claire Shipman has been covering the White House for NBC News (her cubicle in the press section is one flight up from TIME's), while John's mother, TV correspondent Nancy Dickerson, reported on four Presidents...
...certain to bring in new faces wherever he can. Bush would like to have his three top Texas loyalists close by in the White House: political guru Karl Rove, press attache Karen Hughes and operations chief Joe Allbaugh--if he can get him to come. (Allbaugh, who isn't keen to move to D.C., joked to TIME recently that he was "looking for lottery numbers so I can tell the Governor to 'Go to hell.'") Bush's alter ego, Don Evans, a friend going back 25 years, will probably be Commerce Secretary. And there was talk last week of recruiting...