Word: mastering
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Senators have a duty to ensure that Bork does not have a chance to continue playing his self-absorbed game with the Constitution for him is like a 200-year old Rubik's cube. After tortured reasoning, the game's self-proclaimed master manages to find a way to come to the same end point. Bork is more than a conservative activist. He's a radical puzzle-solver...
After the first dinner last night, Dudley House Master Arthur L. Loeb '45 said he felt the first meal had been "quite successful" and that so far there had been no problems...
Brenner received his Master's of Public Policy (M.P.P.) in 1982, Williams in 1985. Canfield graduated in 1984 from the one-year mid-career program that Harvard's youngest professional school offers. Their post-Kennedy School path has led them on the much-traveled Cambridge-Washington circuit, where along with growing numbers of K-School alumni, they are forming a new corps of congressional administrators and policymakers...
...eager to build abroad. "At construction sites in Japan," he says, "workers are always so willing to cooperate with architects that we can do something almost unthinkable in the U.S. -- modify our designs in the process of building." Maki knows what he is talking about. He earned master's degrees in the '50s from Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Arts and from Harvard, taught at Harvard and practiced in New York City with Skidmore Owings & Merrill. He returned to Tokyo...
...extent, Beloved does just that. Toni Morrison, the author of four previous novels including the acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977), certainly displays slavery in all its cruelty and loathsomeness, but she does so from an intriguing, unsettling perspective. Her heroine is Sethe, who has run away from her Kentucky master and settled with her mother-in-law on the outskirts of Cincinnati. The details of Sethe's break for freedom are appropriately heroic. Pregnant with her fourth child and apparently abandoned at the last moment by her husband and fellow slave Halle, she nonetheless manages to send her three children...