Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this new world, Rubin has remade the Treasury into an organization that is "more like an investment bank," says Tim Geithner, the 37-year-old Under Secretary for International Affairs. Unlike past Secretaries, who wanted decisions presented as thumbs-up, thumbs-down recommendations, Rubin wants debate. "He is a master at eliciting opinions," says David Lipton, a former Treasury official. The emblematic Treasury encounter is what Rubin calls a "rolling meeting," which cruises from one corner of the globe to the other as aides sprint in and out of the room. Says Lipton: "Often in meetings Rubin will cut right...
...returned to Archangel, her home in the north. Kelso and a TV reporter head up there, followed by the cop, followed by military thugs. What they find, to no one's surprise, is that not everyone in the new, modern Russia thinks Stalin was a bloodstained disaster. Harris, a master of umbrous what-ifs, is at his best here...
Adams House Master and Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely would only say, "It's great fun. They serve all kinds of goodies...
...documentary films. This is also a ridiculous idea. But this is the simple premise of Valparaiso (say: "val puh rise oh"), the new play making its stage debut at the American Repertory Theater this month. Its simple premise, however, is deceptive: Valparaiso was written by Don DeLillo, a master of illustrating the complex nature of even the simplest situation and the inherent ridiculousness of the culture we live...
Future entrepreneurs would probably gain important problem-solving skills by getting a two-year master's degree in philosophy. But why should they, if they have no desire to be philosophers? Likewise, why should future writers of lawyers or professors consult? If you want real world experience, surely there are other means of getting...