Word: shrewdly
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...Place" by Janet Browne (Knopf; September 17) a starred review. "Continuing where 'Charles Darwin: Voyaging' (1995) left off, the British science historian completes her brilliant two-volume biography...For all his apparent desire to be left alone to lead the life of a country gentleman, Darwin was a shrewd self-promoter, vigorously publicizing his work even in the depths of a long illness that Browne suggests may have been brought on in part by his tireless labors...A richly detailed, vivid, and definitive portrait with not a word wasted: the best life of Charles Darwin in the modern literature...
...scourge of would-be spies and saboteurs... The stubbornly independent guardian of evenhanded law enforcement, highmindedly fending off Congressmen and Presidents who sought to use his agency for political purposes. J. Edgar Hoover deserved some of that billing, although it was overblown... [Now] Hoover is seen as a shrewd bureaucratic genius who cared less about crime than about perpetuating his crime-busting image... He was a petty man of towering personal hates. There was more than a tinge of racism in his vicious vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr.... His informers, infiltrators and wiretappers delved into the activities of even...
...supporters and associates, that is the critical issue. Mokhtar is a shrewd, self-made entrepreneur. "The man comes from the school of hard knocks. He wasn't an accountant who had everything handed to him on a silver platter like the others," says one close adviser. "His father was a cattle farmer. He took a loan from the government in the '70s to buy his own trucks to carry cattle from one state to the next to get a higher price. Then he started transporting rice in the same trucks and bought his own paddy fields...
...with only 530,000 voters, he's used to cultivating his constituents virtually one by one. Last month he passed up commencement addresses at large universities to speak to a graduating class of 12 high school seniors in Hecla, S.D., a tiny town near the North Dakota border--a shrewd political gesture that got him major newspaper play in the state. But Daschle, who has had a beefed-up security detail since Sept. 11, is seething over being targeted by the G.O.P., believing it's partly responsible for threats he continues to receive. Newspaper ads have depicted him side...
...Shrewd investing, the Internet economy and a strong commodities market combine to create a record $4.8 billion surge in Harvard’s coffers, bringing the endowment to more than $19 billion...