Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long talks with animal companions, often over the telephone, to plumb the depths of their presumably troubled psyches. A 30-min. consultation might reveal that an aging horse is worried about being sent to the glue factory or that a dog feels overburdened by having to bear all his master's secrets in silence. Typical cost: $35 a session. And they say psychotherapy is a dying...
President Jiang Zemin of China has chosen the perfect time to come to Harvard: Halloween. Jiang is himself a master at masquerading. He and his trade-hungry apologists in the United States are attempting to portray the structural violence of Chinese human rights abuses as an understandable part of Chinese culture...
...game. And as Steve Coz, Russell Turiak and even Marty Singer know, sex, drugs, money and all other prurient interests sell. (That's why the seven sins--or was it 364--are sins, because they are attractive.) Journalism students are trained professionals--trained, that is, to serve their master. And what corporation cares about what Harvard has to say other than which building or chair it gets to name after itself...
...never want to wake the master," he said. "If you wake the master, then there's a spike wall, an entire wall of spikes that falls...
...forget plodding up steps on a Stair-master or pedaling furiously in place on a stationary bike. Picture yourself flying along the Charles River with the wind in your face and a pair of sleek blades beneath your feet...