Her reports, written for the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based organization with prominent former American diplomats on its board, were keenly read by Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Of course, there is very real business value to Apple's competitors and it was keenly read by a self-selected group, but by the end of the week, the phone, which may or may not have been stolen goods, depending on your perspective, seemed a little beside the point.
One thing I felt keenly while reading was the ignorance of even great minds, based on when they lived in history.
I felt this keenly when I read Ted Hughes's blurb for a later Dufault collection, "Looking in All Directions" (2000): "So fresh and new and itself… wonderful stuff.
He was keenly interested in Jung, whom he was reading in Afghanistan, together with an eclectic library of writers, including Robert Pirsig, whose "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" he was getting ready to read for a third time.
Those who are not particular fans – including me as it happens – may not have felt his death especially keenly, nor wanted to read every article which has been written about him in the last seven days.
He had Facebook friends he'd never met, people who signed up just to read his keenly honed repartee.
They are keenly aware that a teacher, parent, relative, coach or other adult in their life may be reading their social networking site, so they think twice about what they are posting.
Anthony's approach to the periodical is odd - on the one hand its readership is "limited" to an intellectual elite ("academics, writers, commentators"); on the other, he claims that in the past while reading it he actually thought less, as "it was a relief to defer to the better read, the more keenly informed".
Most of you reading this will never have had that experience, but many of the men I taught were ignorant of just about everything, and as grown men felt this keenly.
