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...essayist Edward Hoagland, in a splendid piece called "Dogs and the Tug of Life," mentions that the dog's sense of smell is at least a hundred times as keen as a man's. He goes on to become somewhat personal: "The way in which a dog presents his anus and genitals for inspection indicates the hierarchical position that he aspires to, and other dogs who sniff his genitals are apprised of his sexual condition. From his urine they can undoubtedly distinguish age, build, state of sexual activity and general health, even hours after he's passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nose for News | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

...could not have predicted the color of their eyes? Respect for others' lives and well-being is too fundamental to be grounded in surprise; the argument has nothing to do with the morality of genetic engineering and everything to do with how other people (presumably bereft of Will's keen moral sense) will react...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: The False Apocalypse | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, | Title: Revealing a Political Stranglehold | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stanford Law Dean A Potential President | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hooked on Politics | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

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