Word: expertly
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...Powell is a liar or is deliberately misleading the rest of us, we must respect his professional view that integration of gays would be more harmful than helpful. As the principal military advisor to the president, Powell's job is to impart to a civilian commander-in-chief his expert opinion on matters of military policy. Powell has done exactly this. Furthermore, he has from the beginning made clear his intention to implement whatever course of action President Clinton decides upon, despite his personal deep opposition to the integration of gays. As always, Powell is simply doing...
...Senator when he shot all eight bullets from his .22-cal. pistol. What's more, FBI investigators found evidence -- from tiles and door jambs destroyed by the L.A.P.D. shortly after the trial -- that 12 or 13 bullets had been fired in the pantry. According to a weapons expert for the L.A.P.D., DeWayne Wolfer, the bullets that killed R.F.K. were unquestionably fired from Sirhan's gun. However, some experts believe that Wolfer did his forensic testing not with Sirhan's gun but with a different .22 cal. weapon -- which police also destroyed...
West admits he shares his friends' misgivings. "The same folks who want you to be a public intellectual also want you to be an expert, a visionary, a technician and leader on the ground all at the same time. You can't do all those things and do them well," he says. "People will try to shape you into an image of yourself that in no way coincides with your image of yourself. It's a danger that might be realized, even though I'm fighting against it as hard...
Shortly after that triumph, Masako's life changed. Her father accepted an invitation to teach at the Harvard Law School, and the family packed up and moved to the Boston suburb of Belmont. Perhaps because she was challenged by a language that she knew but was not expert at, she became serious, studious and focused. The infielder and the would-be vet gradually receded. Her adviser, Lillian Katz, says Masako "never needed moral support. She knew her own worth, and she knew that she was her parents' pride and joy." Belmont has reason to remember its former high-schooler. Since...
...part, U S West has made what some see as a prescient investment in % the movies and TV shows that will be carried over the information highways no matter who owns them. According to W. Russell Neuman, a communications expert at Tufts University, U S West has profited from the lesson Sony learned when it lost the VCR wars a decade earlier. Sony's Beta lost out to VHS because its competitors made better deals with the folks who held the intellectual- property rights -- in this case, the movie companies. That, says Neuman, is why Sony bought CBS Records...