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...like me, who have been fortunate enough to have Chris as a good friend as well as a wonderful colleague,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail. “Professor Edley is a brilliant and visionary thinker, an accomplished scholar, and a superb administrator with a keen sense of the politically attainable and of how best to get from here to there. I congratulate...Chris for his courage in taking on this challenging assignment...
...paying 20% more than the minimum wage. The council has requested a four-year moratorium on settling more political refugees in the city, and has vowed to stop building low-rent housing to restore "long-term balance" to the Netherlands' second city. The center-right Dutch government, while keen to decrease immigration, has signaled its opposition to Rotterdam's approach. And with good reason: local initiatives, and even national ones, frequently lead to a mere displacement of the problem. Just ask the Swedes. The tougher approach taken by the Danish government elected in November 2001, including...
...Keen: An expression denoting expertise, experience, talent (e.g., He’s a keen mathematician...
...staff to meet his exacting standards as proofer. FM’s favourite Brit never fails to catch and criticise a spelling mistake, but is always eager to relieve us of a few aluminium cans of American beer and keep the crew in good humour. The staff were always keen to have him proof, especially when he told us that our copy was bloody brilliant. That might have happened once or twice...
...efficiently created a page where there was none just hours before press time, it was clear that Moll could have comped design as easily as she did FM. But the magazine struck gold in finding Mollie, who, luckily for this rag, has always been content-focused, though her keen aesthetic sense and inimitable style may lead some to assume otherwise. As Moll grabs hold of the reins of FM—an often unwieldy beast, even for someone as stubborn as Mollie, who insists on wearing patent leather Marc Jacobs pumps in a Nor’easter?...