Word: guru
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...created the Tennessee Valley Authority and all, it’s nice to know that The Crimson has changed considerably in the past 100 years (for one thing, there’s no smoking during presidential deliberations), and continues to change at what seems like an accelerating rate. Technology guru Matt MacInnis ’02 was our first (extremely) openly gay president in 128 years. Hatchet-man extraordinaire Imtiyaz H. “Don’t tell anyone my middle name is Hussain!” Delawala ’03 is about to finish his tenure...
With the help of statistics guru Bill James and dozens of other baseball minds, Epstein is taking the George W. Bush strategy of filling his office with proven “smart” guys. Also like Bush, Esptein is a Yale grad. Unlike Bush, Epstein can form a complete sentence. As long as Epstein’s Sox don’t turn out like Bush’s Rangers, things should...
...White House, there is an ongoing parlor game to rate Bush's possible Democratic challengers in 2004. Political guru Rove figures union support will give Gephardt the nomination. Another Bush adviser says Edwards' charisma and experience as a trial lawyer enable him to confront Bush's coziness with business. Yet another views Kerry as the toughest potential rival: "The people who assume we can kill Kerry are the same people who thought Bill Clinton was a hick who couldn't win." They all but dismiss Gore. But then their boss is living proof of the power of low expectations...
Karl Rove, a former historian and now political guru to President Bush, is writing a short history of his office, which over the years housed, among others, Kennedy's political operative, Larry O'Brien; Eisenhower and Nixon's troubleshooter, Bryce Harlow; and Cabinet Secretary Elizabeth Dole. "The office has the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing," says Rove. He initially assumed it had been installed for Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first First Lady to have a West Wing office. (She insists it was there when she moved...
Tsatsouline introduced kettlebells to the American fitness community in workshops and videos and has become something of a guru, authoring such books as The Russian Kettlebell Challenge: Xtreme Fitness for Hard-Living Comrades and From Russia with Tough Love: Pavel’s Kettlebell Workout for a Femme Fatale...