Word: expertly
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...natural constituency to support him--neither in the military nor in the provincial party system nor in the central bureaucracy. Explains David Shambaugh, a China expert at George Washington University and the Brookings Institution: "Zhu has stepped on a lot of toes to get to the top, and he's alienated a lot of people. He has numerous vulnerabilities...
Holbrooke's Balkan ballet this month was a pretty good indicator of why he thrives on such high-octane politics--and why even his critics give him credit for being steel-stiff under pressure. He is, for instance, an expert in the art of intimidation--an essential tool when dealing with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. When Holbrooke arrived in Belgrade on Oct. 5, as NATO planners began to tune up a massive strike against the Serbian forces in Kosovo, Milosevic had the gall to challenge Holbrooke with a small joke. "Are you Americans crazy enough to bomb us over...
...Terman, a research psychologist at Columbia University. He is worried that the boxes may be tried by patients who are suicidal or suffer from mental illness that can't be treated with light. Terman has developed a questionnaire, available at www.cet.org/cet2000 to help determine whether you should seek expert care...
...those women, says Flynt, whom he's speaking to with his offer: "I'm giving them an upside to coming forward." Flynt has turned for expert help to veteran Washington writer and NPR contributor Rudy Maxa, who flew to Los Angeles last Friday to select the best stories and recruit reporters to pursue them. Maxa says he was lured out of semiscandal retirement by the prospect that some of those discarded on the ash heap of history might emerge to name names. Maxa's claim to fame is exposing former Congressman Wayne Hays and his "assistant" Elizabeth...
...monopolist of the third millennium. Will the 108-year-old Sherman Act establish a beachhead in cyberspace? Or will antitrust cops be forever banished from the world of bits and bytes? It is not just a Silicon Valley issue, either. "If Microsoft wins," says William Kovacic, an antitrust expert at George Mason University, "dominant firms everywhere get still broader latitude to do whatever they please...