Word: hermeticism
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Bok said last week that he has worked very hard not to step on Faust’s toes, but noted that it was impossible to create a hermetic seal around his presidency.
Investors had good reason to be skeptical. Golf is a notoriously hermetic industry, dominated by a handful of top clubmakers with the advantage of years of tradition and a loyal customer base. Nike signed Tiger Woods before it had so much as a golf ball to put into his hands...
So when the verdict against Libby came down, it was also a rebuke to that hermetic power-sharing arrangement at the top of the White House. The legal outcome was never in doubt. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had been massing evidence of perjury for months and then unveiled it piece...
Jan Crawford Greenburg got unusual access for her new book, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court (Penguin Press; 340 pages), including interviews with nine current and former Justices. The result is a rare inside look at the strange, hermetic world...
BabelParamount VantageDirected by Alejandro González IñárrituMexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu really digs vehicular disaster. Maybe a little too much. First there was “Amores Perros,” his 2000 debut—a brilliant, difficult...