Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Widely admired by the writers and editors who have worked with her, Amsterdam is known as a tough and careful master who savors the process of gathering news and labors over every nuance and comma. "She is one of the most energetic and committed editors I have ever seen," says Shelby Coffey | III, who worked with Amsterdam at the Washington Post and was recently named executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Amsterdam's detractors complain that she can be impatient, has a thin skin and gets on better with male colleagues than with female. Amsterdam is married...
...addition to the complications over insurance premiums, the council also had to wait several weeks for each house master to write a letter agreeing to accept the machines, Bramson said...
...Psychologically, students don't have the feeling that they're doing hard work in the University," says Till M. Roenneberg, a research associate in biology who co-teaches North 119, "Chronobiology: Cells, Organisms, and Temporal Organization," with North House Master J. Woodland Hastings. "If the courses were held in the lecture halls of the bio labs, people would tend to say it's over at half past seven or eight. It's more of an open-ended discussion...
After three consecutive wins, Hitech draws a tougher player. Berliner becomes visibly nervous when he discovers that the opponent is Grand Master Sergei Kudrin, a slender Soviet emigre with long wavy hair and sleepy eyes. Kudrin has been matched against Hitech in tournament play twice before -- and has beaten it both times. A large crowd of onlookers presses in around the table. "This is going to be a wild game," Berliner predicts...
...nice," she says of John Burke, the manager of a manufacturing plant in Carol Stream, Ill. Near the beginning of the game, Hitech startles Berliner by choosing to move one of its bishops on a bold diagonal, driving deep into enemy territory. But Burke, who has a master's rating, is no pushover. Indeed, he fights back so well that Berliner is worried about the outcome. His concern increases when Hitech suddenly seems to get cold feet, agonizing over how to avoid losing pieces. "It keeps going round and round the mulberry bush," Berliner sighs. Ultimately, Hitech stops dillydallying...