Word: mastering
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...Academy probablystill feels that Norton is a bit too green for anOscar. Not to worry. He'll be back before you knowit.Ian McKellen, Gods and Monsters: Sir Iancomes from a prestigious tradition of Londontheater and film, and has firmly establishedhimself Stateside as one of the top Shakespeareanactors--a master of his craft. His performance inGods and Monsters, as the aging, gayfilmmaker James Whale, was superb. But like Nolte,he may suffer due to the film's low profile. Don'tcount McKellen out, though. The Academy'spreferences often tend toward older, establishedactors...
Reviving the Kosovo peace process may be like reheating a souffl? -- getting it to rise a second time can take a miracle. The White House hopes that U.N. ambassador-designate Richard Holbrooke is the master chef who can pull it off. Now in Belgrade, on Wednesday Holbrooke will try to arm-twist President Slobodan Milosevic into signing the troubled peace deal. "Milosevic is hanging tough," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But the deal is ultimately in his interests, and that may lead him eventually to sign." That and Holbrooke's powers of persuasion: The U.S. envoy brandished...
...days later, after the former Chicago Bull had officially signed, it was Laker coach Del Harris who broke down. Not because he'd have to baby-sit Rodman (whose last coach would be wearing a straitjacket today were he not a Zen master) but because Harris had just been fired after a 6-6 start with a team that had had ring-ceremony potential...
...Unless they try hard to avoid it [professors here] end up on more committees outside the institution than faculty at less prestigious schools," wrote Leverett House Master and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi in an e-mail message from California where he was attending a Department of Energy committee meeting...
...were the first to master the running man. Your roger rabbit rocks the party that rocks the party. Luckily, classes at the MAC and Radcliffe have just started, so your inner Nureyev can stretch, chasse and find a beat...