Word: master
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...cent of the Harvard student body has a genuine disability. Rarely is it a psychological problem, Dinklage says. More often those who cannot learn languages are the same students who had difficulty learning to read and spell in English, even though they could speak it. To try to master reading an unfamiliar language would be impossible for them. Other students have trouble interpreting a language they hear and cannot assimilate the Harvard language courses, which have become more listening-oriented in the past decade...
McHenry's rise to his present post has been low-keyed and skillful. Born in St. Louis, he graduated from Illinois State University and earned a master's degree in international relations at Southern Illinois University. In 1963 he joined the State Department as a junior officer in the Office of United Nations Political Affairs and rose quickly through the ranks. A liberal concerned with the humanitarian side of foreign policy, he left the department when Henry Kissinger became Secretary, and joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
Connally denies that his strong pro-business stance makes him a mere wagon master for corporate America. Says he: "Corporations can be monitored. They can be audited. But right now they're so scared of Government they don't dare stick their heads out. The idea that I would be a toady for Big Business, that I would let myself be exploited, that I would use Government to help corporations, is another of those myths. Hell, if I wanted to help myself, I'd denounce Big Business...
...lush coastal Bermuda grass, the last of these desires seems to be the only one unfulfilled. Near by is a ring for his quarter horses and another ring for showing his cattle. "I think I've got the finest herd of young bulls hi the country," the master breeder proudly boasts of his shiny red Santa Gertrudis cattle. He and Nellie have three children and seven grandchildren.* They are avid antique collectors, and their home, furnished partly from their travels and partly from carefully following estate auctions, contains screens from Bah', Persian carpets, eleven hand-carved doors, a marble dining...
...much of the last half of his life, Albert Einstein was preoccupied with a lonely quest. He wanted to bring together under a single set of equations all of nature's basic forces. The master of relativity never achieved his grand unification, and many colleagues scorned him for wasting his precious time on such a farfetched intellectual exercise. Last week, at a major meeting of physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., outside Chicago, Einstein's seemingly futile dream suddenly sounded far more realistic...