Word: disciplinarian
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Though he seems every inch a disciplinarian, Primakov has not yet been able to shake the new government into shape. Ministers contradict one another in public. They unnerve the markets and the IMF with widely varying figures for the amount of new money that will have to be printed to keep the economy afloat. Primakov, meanwhile, has struck some visitors as strangely removed from the day-to-day business of government. A senior diplomat recalled a recent high-level meeting with the new Prime Minister. "We asked about foreign policy," the diplomat said, "and Primakov waved his hand and referred...
Some of these distinctions are choreographed. Over the years, the King and the prince have developed a deliberately complementary partnership. Hussein plays the role of the beaming, benevolent father, while Hassan is the disciplinarian, even if it makes him unloved. Hussein will receive a delegation of functionaries, clap them on the back and tell them they've done a fine job. Then he'll phone Hassan, complain about their shortcomings and instruct his brother to sort...
...Hollywood's most frighteningly talented pug--Oliver Stone calls Penn "the ultimate anti-all- American Boy"--yet he relishes the role of father. "Family," he says, "makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive." The perennial wild child also plays disciplinarian to his and Wright's son and daughter. "Robin is there for the battles," he explains. "I come in during the war settlements. Then there's no negotiations; I'm basically the atom bomb...
...budget in the fall, but the person upon whom most of the speculation has devolved is Sandy Berger, the National Security Council chief who missed getting the job last year by a whisker of his perpetual five o'clock shadow. Aides say Berger is much more of a disciplinarian than Bowles or Leon Panetta, and unafraid to give Clinton bad news with the bark off. An Asia specialist who enjoys the support of the First Lady, Berger is also intensely political and was one of Clinton's first backers in 1988. What Berger lacks is the chumminess and personal chemistry...
...intriguing notion. How little we hear of self-discipline in our indulgent and permissive society. Bill Bennett--perhaps America's greatest example of the value of a humane education--says that self-discipline means to be a disciple of oneself. "One is one's own teacher, trainer, coach and 'disciplinarian,'" Bennett says. Is this as fatuous as it sounds...