Word: mastering
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Grandmaster Alexander Ivanov and International Master-elect William Paschall tied for first place overall in the tournament...
Garcia captivated the world at the PGA. While chasing Mr. Woods and coming up just a stroke short, Master Sergio accomplished a remarkable thing: he made the world's best player look old at 23. Here was the Spanish lad, eyes closed, slashing at a ball burrowed behind a tree, then sprinting up the fairway and leaping into the air to see the marvelous result. Here, meanwhile, was the American, eyes glassy, agonizing over 5-ft. putts that have in the past--though not this year--been his bete noire...
...abated on June 6? World War II chronicler and Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose argues that without air cover and paratrooper support, the first waves of Allied troops would have been incapable of fighting. Eisenhower could not have withdrawn them. Hitler could have held his positions, and Operation Overlord, the master plan for reconquering Europe, would have disintegrated. Ike would have lost his job, the Churchill government could have fallen, and President Franklin Roosevelt might have failed in his bid for a fourth term...
...every scientific breakthrough has proved unambiguously benign--unleashing the atom, for example--but all have expanded the human horizon into spheres prior generations could not even imagine. In the process, the growing ability to master the universe has opened a new window into the human soul. Science and metaphysics, the secular and the sacred, have begun to merge. As science comes face to face with infinity--as it is forced to do by Einstein's theories--it deals with a phenomenon it can barely describe and has yet proved unable to explain...
...digital sleight of hand, few artists ply their trade more slyly than Yasumasa Morimura. Inserting his image into famous works, this Osaka-based master becomes the languorous courtesan (and her maid) in Manet's Olympia or--how could he resist?--the Mona Lisa. Combining photography, painting and computer manipulation, each piece is a wicked homage, turning art history into a gilded vanity mirror. In his new show at New York City's Luhring Augustine Gallery, the farce is lavish and precise, as Morimura continues his wry, gender-bending ways...