Word: keens
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...chaos," remembers Jimmy Keen, a lieutenant with the New Orleans police department (N.O.P.D.) and the former commander of the homicide unit. Keen joined the department at age 19 and has stayed for 30 years. He has white hair swept back off his forehead, gimlet eyes and the bone-dry sense of humor adopted by police officers whose intentions have been knocking up against reality for a long time...
...startling discovery that the pair were still alive. Webb and Russell were still trapped eight days later, when Time went to press, but in the meantime they apparently kept cracking jokes. Spokesmen relayed that Russell had asked for a newspaper to be sent down to him: he was keen to start looking for a new job. He was also expecting to be paid overtime for his extended shift. And both men wanted to be out in time to play for their local footy team on the Saturday...
...response. The sponsor of the contentious bill motions to have an “out of order” opponent immediately expelled. The motion fails, the gavel comes down, and Annie Riley shakes her head. By being quiet, Riley has made the UC loud. Armed with a keen ear for students’ concerns, she leads by listening. Although the diverse and divisive debates she fosters at times land in the world of minutia, her approach has spawned results. Halfway into her tenure, Riley has already spearheaded the institution of a new social programming board and proposed a popular overhaul...
...Colombo think tank, reckons that, in Sri Lankan terms, both sides are showing restraint-neither has launched all-out assaults. "The government knows the only way to stop the L.T.T.E. from killing more soldiers is to meet them at the negotiating table," says Perera. The Tigers, he adds, are keen to shore up their battered reputation with the international community, which can stymie fund raising among the Tamil diaspora and stop rebel sympathizers from traveling. Last Friday government spokesman Rambukwella told TIME that Norway, which has been acting as mediator, has scheduled fresh talks between Colombo and the L.T.T.E...
...coming years, Shu, like so many other Americans of Chinese descent, watched the economic rise of China with keen interest. He had been born in Hong Kong but left for suburban New York City with his parents when he was just a toddler, making him, as he puts it, "thoroughly Americanized-more Woody Allen than anything else." The stint with Goldman in Hong Kong had rekindled his interest in China, however, and though his career brought him back to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, the lure of what was happening on the mainland proved irresistible. Two years...