Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wade Boggs, the perpetual American League batting titlist. See Dwight Evans, the underrated right fielder cum first baseman who is turning in an MVP-type season. See Roger Clemens, the strikeout master...
...Hopefully they [Kennedy School volunteers] will also serve as role models for graduate work or careers in public administration," said Supple, who is a second-year candidate for a Master's of Public Administration at the Kennedy School...
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...
...five-day seminar called "Our Myth-Body to Live By." The topic is vintage Esalen: an attempt to marry impulses physical and metaphysical. So too are the seminar leaders: Joseph Campbell, mythologer supreme and godfather to many a '60s quester, and Chungliang Al Huang, a Chinese-born master of Tai Chi. For six hours each day, the octogenarian Campbell sits cross-legged on the floor and improvises passionate lectures about Navajo paintings, the dangers of spiritual feudalism and why Hindu elephants are "clouds condemned to earth." Whenever the talk gets too cerebral, Huang, a beady-eyed Boswell to Campbell...
...candidates move from backers' auditions to full-fledged Broadway tryouts. The cast in both parties seems set; only Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado is waiting in the wings actively considering a late entry. The candidates (eight Democrats, with Schroeder, and six Republicans) have had months to master their lines, crafting glib answers to almost every conceivable question and perfecting a sincere this-is-who-I-am stump speech. The early-bird voters in Iowa and New Hampshire for the most part have been attentive, recognizing that this is the first campaign in two decades without an incumbent President dominating...