Word: masterfulness
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...stroke, pulled his top lieutenant from his post as Reform Minister to protest what he sees as the government's lukewarm commitment to giving more autonomy to Italy's regions. Berlusconi quickly vowed that regionalization reforms would go ahead. Since returning to office in 2001, Berlusconi has been a master coalition-builder. His government is the longest-lived of the 57 different ruling coalitions that have governed Italy since the end of World War II. Yet beneath that glossy surface, microparties continue to multiply, and Berlusconi lavishes political capital on simply keeping his government from imploding. There's no better...
...master's degree from Stanford and a Harvard M.B.A. didn't help return Huang to the Marxist fold. Nor did an exercise in entrepreneurship when he co-founded General Wireless (now known as MTone), one of the first mainland-owned companies to receive venture-capital funding in the mid-'90s. Now Huang is sowing the seeds of capitalism as China managing director of Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, a $400 million venture fund. "There's a tendency for foreigners to look at [Chinese] companies run by English-speaking CEOs because they feel they can trust them and talk directly to them...
...Auslander’s unconvincing portrait of Shlomo makes the character come across as being closer to mid-life than middle school. When Auslander describes Heimish’s master groping the “pendulous breasts” of the “grossly overweight” Mrs. Malinowitz, he seems to forget that the lecherous Shlomo is—at least ostensibly—still only 10 years...
DREW: Kukstis, tell me you’re kidding when you say that any band which channels a past master has to be compared to the original. That’s (to borrow from the Brits again) bollocks, and it’s bollocks of the most elitist kind...
...conflicts. Part of the problem is technical. To withstand a nuclear blast and keep on ticking, the Net was built without a central command authority. That means that nobody owns it, nobody runs it, nobody has the power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed," says Clifford Stoll, a Berkeley astronomer famous on the Internet for having trapped a German spy who was trying to use it to break into U.S. military computers...