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...National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” gifted young writers, which means that he’s also really young (and seriously good at writing). Oh and did we mention... he used to be a professional skateboarder? FM sat down with this mastermind to talk about his new collection, thrashing, and making films with Farrah Fawcett. 1. Fifteen Minutes (FM): How did the idea for “Naming the World” come about?Bret A. Johnston (BJ): An editor approached me about doing it, and I thought it was a wonderful...
...exiled spiritual leader. But since the anti-Chinese demonstrations began in and outside Tibet on March 10, the Dalai Lama has found himself confronting a swelling tide of opposition and defiance from within his community. So, on the one hand, he has to contend with Beijing calling him the mastermind of the violent protests in Lhasa, and to walk a diplomatic tightrope with the Indian authorities that host his government-in-exile but value their relationship with China; on the other hand he has to try and rein in the more violent and provocative elements among Tibetans whose actions...
...Warne, besides a collegiate career at Hofstra that included two All-America East Conference nominations, the defensive mastermind assisted at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he helped the Retrievers to a NCAA quarterfinal berth last season...
...with Rove’s assistant. “With his resignation being pretty recent, this is one of the first times that he was free,” Weatherl said. A longtime Republican political strategist and advisor to President George W. Bush, Rove is widely credited as the mastermind behind the Republican presidential campaign victories in 2000 and 2004. He served in various positions in the Bush administration from January 2001 until his resignation last August. “When it comes to someone like Karl Rove, he’s had an impact on the political climate...
Mughniyah also was the mastermind of several other savage hijackings and the taking of Western hostages, including a former colleague, CIA station chief Bill Buckley. All of these attacks were carried out at the behest of Iran...