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...again, serving as metaphor and explanation, the macho little-boy equivalent of the dolled-up kindergarten beauty queen. Frontiersboy Drew learned to bait hooks and scope out prey with his father and grandfather, developing a taste for the chili cooked up after a successful deer hunt. He had a keen eye, improving his marksmanship at a shooting range and his reflexes at the video consoles of Wal-Mart and the local bowling alley. "He played video games with guns," says his grandfather Doug Golden, standing off a dining room framed by deer antlers and a vast gun collection. "There...
...center are the Bach suites, technically demanding pieces that have an elusive yet keen emotional pull, at times both mournful and celebratory. Performing them all in one evening, as Ma has on occasion, and will again this month in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, is a feat of endurance--marathon and obstacle course in one. These are pieces that Rostropovich did not essay on record until he was in his 60s. Ma first recorded them when he was just 26. It is music entwined with his life: he first encountered them at four, when his father, a violinist...
Annan: [The Iraqis] are very keen to get rid of the sanctions. I made it very clear to him that the only way to do that is to cooperate with [the U.N. Special Commission] and get the job done expeditiously so that it is in their hands. Without their cooperation, it is not going to happen. They built the nation and had it destroyed and rebuilt it. So I asked him whether he wanted to destroy all these wonderful edifices, because that is what will happen...
...Magenta's first president, Henry A. Clark, class of 1874, later recalled in a history of The Crimson that the Dean of the College was not too keen on the idea of a student newspaper at Harvard...
...clear just when the wolves in Yellowstone National Park sense that the helicopters are coming, but with their sharp eyes and keen hearing it's certain they notice them fast. Last week one of the choppers suddenly appeared, flying low over a meadow where 14 gray wolves were bedding down in the crusty snow. The wolves immediately scattered, but not so fast that a crew member in the helicopter wasn't able to take aim with a modified rifle and fire a net over one of them. As the large pup thrashed in the net, another man leaped...