Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...born in India, attended Presidency College in Calcutta and received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge...
...studies lend a neurological basis to what cognitive science has known for the past 100 years-that it is more effective to master a new skill by relating it to your knowledge as a whole than by rote repetition...
Lowell House Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin said she knew the incident had been on residents' minds since the attack five days ago. When she heard the news of Shepard's death, she worked with her partner, Master Diana L. Eck, to think quickly of a way to honor the student...
...stepped carefully in the King's shadow for the 33 years he has served as official understudy. The two share the same basic political values: moderation, a Western bent, a fervent embrace of peace. But as individuals, they are more disparate than kindred. While the King is a master of instinct, the prince is a bookish sort. Hussein is patient and given to indirection, Hassan restless, driven and blunt...
This is the kind of Woody Allen comedy Woody Allen no longer makes, the story of Z (voiced by the master himself), a timid, neurotically oppressed, sexually obsessed, glumly funny urban male who somehow stumbles his way to conditional happiness. That his urb happens to be an ant colony, his beloved (Sharon Stone) its overindulged princess and his nemesis (Gene Hackman) a fascist general mounting a coup adds a nice weird touch to the tale, as does the dark-toned computer animation. Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome...