Word: keens
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Everyday life can excel as a brain gym where you are your own personal trainer. At 72, Harold Gallay of Clearwater, Fla., has a memory as keen as that of a man half his age, rattling off sports statistics and regularly besting his four grown children at Trivial Pursuit. For years, he and his wife Leona, 71, have played bridge, done daily crossword puzzles, read newspapers cover to cover and discussed current news...
...keen depiction of a lost Pakistani generation will invite comparisons with F. Scott Fitzgerald, though perhaps a closer analogue would be the late Robert Bingham, who did for overly rich young New Yorkers what Hamid is doing for their Pakistani counterparts. And given the focus on substance abuse, one might even call it a Pakistani Trainspotting, minus some luridness and plus a smattering of Urdu. Could this novel have been set in New York? Probably not. The corruption among the elite, the nuclear threat and the constellation of gender and social issues in Pakistan work in a constellation that would...
...coincidence that the only major reforms we have seen in the Clinton presidency addressed immigration and welfare? While welfare recipients and immigrants are not known for their campaign contributions, health care, gun control, education and corporate and military pork all have very well-financed special interest groups with a keen desire to maintain the status...
...have long been reluctant to criticize Christopher Reeve. It is not easy attacking someone who suffered such a devastating injury and has carried on with spirit. Nor am I particularly keen to violate the Brotherhood of the Extremely Unlucky. (I injured my spinal cord when I was 22 and have been in a wheelchair ever since...
...constitutionality of the impeachment process. The word race was not mentioned once during the meeting, but its influence was felt in every section of the room. Some council members uttered disparaging words under their breath; others sighed in exasperation. But more than anything else, I experienced a keen sense of disappointment. I keep thinking that there must be more important things for Dr. Counter to attend to. I understood why he and other black students were present, but I was upset that they deemed their presence necessary...