Word: maestro
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...Still, though Federer has strung together another dominant season, he is not completely unbeatable. The Swiss maestro has lost six matches this year, including yet another defeat to second-ranked Rafael Nadal in the final of the French Open, the only Grand Slam title to elude him. As the U.S. Open gets under way, we offer five perfectly legal ways to take down Roger Federer...
...catering distinguishes Singapore as one of the world's finest carriers, and rivals have taken notice. Air France signed on Michelin-three-star French maestro Guy Martin in 2002, and Delta now offers the fare of Miami celebrity chef Michelle Bernstein...
...long suggested that some Harvard students write rather poorly. The official line is that all students should be proficient writers after completing a course in Expository Writing, which has been required of all first years since 1872 and, at least in theory, molds each freshman into an essay-writing maestro. And yet professors, teaching fellows, and students all see examples of sub-par writing far too frequently. This begs the question of just how well Harvard does in teaching writing...
...Just as Gore & Co. are exiting the press room, Melissa Etheridge wins Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up" from their film. The Veep hoots, beams and nods while watching Etheridge's speech on the monitors before exiting to make way for Maestro Ennio Morricone and his translator...
...musical about competing falafel stands in the Middle East, and The Saviour, a drama about a door-to-door Mormon evangelist in love with a married woman. On the animated bill are little gems like Lifted, a Pixar picture about an alien learning the basics of abduction, and Maestro, in which the aforementioned Hungarian animator goes behind the scenes of a cuckoo clock in 3-D. "It's satisfying to see something that's funny or dark and really short," says Gary Rydstrom, director of Lifted. "Those are both tones that are hard to sustain over a long period...