Word: masterminder
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Seems like the mastermind of our bailout from the Depression 2.0 would have majored in Economics. But Tim Geithner actually majored in the same subject as Kirsten Gillibrand while at Dartmouth: Asian Studies...
...Over the past half-dozen years, the platform-booted mastermind of lyrics like "You pull the trigger of my love gun" has been cultivating a financially rewarding following as a painter and sculptor. It may seem an unlikely pursuit for a musician responsible for an entire industry's worth of action figures and lunch boxes. But the Kiss Army has grown up, has children and is now ready to buy art. And Stanley, 57, indulges them with brightly hued paintings that lean toward the abstract. (Think circles, squares and geometric patterns, reminiscent of an electric Madras plaid.) He does figurative...
...people, the first of its reviled leaders faced genocide charges before a U.N.-backed tribunal Feb. 17. Kaing Guek Eav, 66, known as Duch, ran Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng prison camp, where thousands perished. Four other aged defendants will face charges after Duch; absent is Khmer Rouge mastermind Pol Pot, who died in his jungle redoubt...
...presumed handlers of the Mumbai shooters are still at large but are to be indicted, together with six men in custody, on charges of "abetting, conspiracy and facilitation" of an act of terrorism. The accused include Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhwi, the alleged mastermind, and Zarar Shah. Both are considered leading members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the banned militant group blamed for the attacks. They were arrested in an earlier crackdown on Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a charity now banned after being accused of acting as a front group for LeT. (Watch video of Mumbai residents talking about the attacks...
Meanwhile, the case against her husband, alleged mastermind behind the greatest white collar crime ever, will have to wait another day as US federal prosecutors asked for and received another 30-day extension from a judge in US District Court today...