Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the next few days. In what is now being called the "Honor Roll Murder," Tay was brutally beaten by five other teenagers before he finally choked to death; three of the suspects, like Tay, were Asian Americans who were viewed as model kids and top students. The alleged mastermind, Robert Chan, 18, is expected to plead not guilty to murder charges this week. The four other defendants, Abraham Acosta, 16, Kirn Kim, 16, Mun Kang, 17, and Charles Choe, 17, have pleaded not guilty and will learn on Feb. 5 whether they, like Chan, will be tried as adults...
...just think that somehow, something's gone awry in our genetic destiny. This sounds sort of Nietzschian, I think. But somehow, the genetic mastermind behind our evolution is allowing too many congenital morons to get through. Andalso, I think it's very important for people tojust be in better shape. I think it's disgustingto see, especially among writers andintellectuals. They're a bunch of little mice...
President George Bush indicated that he had already learned at least half the lesson. His decision to send Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card to Florida to mastermind relief efforts suggested that even he didn't think FEMA was up to the job. Florida's senior Senator urges a rethinking of military involvement. "In the post-cold war era, this could be an important new function for the military," says Democrat Bob Graham, "not something done after hours, but as an ongoing significant part of the military task...
...considering the timing rather than the substance of negative charges, Clinton revealed his essence. Beyond being both the candidate and his campaign's top policy analyst, Clinton is also chief strategist and tactician, the nuts-and-bolts mastermind of his own race for the presidency, an office he has been preparing to occupy for "at least 10 years," largely by learning from the losses of Democratic wannabes. So while luck has played a role -- Clinton's competitors have yet to catch on, heavy hitters like Jesse Jackson and Mario Cuomo chose not to run, and the end of the cold...
...undisciplined attacks suggested that Cedras, initially considered the coup leader, did not control the army. As events unfolded, it became clear that Major Michel Francois, 34, head of the police force in Haiti's capital, was the mastermind of the coup and the driving force behind the violence that has now claimed 300 lives...