Word: masterminder
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...Hall structure the book backwards, starting with a triple, simultaneous shooting, and then telling each character's backstory in a separate chapter. Taking place in the 1930s or so, "Pistolwhip" uses the conventions of film noir (private detectives, femme fatales, mysterious old men) in its own goofball way. The mastermind's henchmen all inexplicably wear pirate outfits, for example. Or else a woman asks a musician what happened to his band, "The New Ideas." "Eet is a mistake," he says, pulling a gun on her, "Zhere are no New Ideas...
...believe Senator Tom Daschle or anyone else in the current Democratic Party leadership was smart enough to mastermind the political switch of Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican Party [WASHINGTON POWER SHIFT, June 4]. The reason is simple. The Democrats haven't demonstrated such savvy in the past. If they had really been on the ball, they would have gone to President Clinton and told him to clean up his act rather than put the country through the agony of impeachment. If they had achieved that, their Jeffords story would at least be credible. It's a good...
...Before coming to Washington in 1996, Pickard spent much of his career in the bureau's flagship New York office, where he played a crooked accountant in the Abscam undercover case and later supervised the World Trade Center bombing investigation, the extradition and prosecution of terrorist mastermind Ramzi Yousef and the espionage case against FBI turncoat Earl Pitts...
...Paul: The Legend and the Legacy' four-volume CD set (on the Gold Rush label): 'That big, fat, round, ballsy sound with the bright high-end is the Les Paul sound - nobody else has it. And if that's not enough, he was the original do-it-all recording mastermind: a producer-arranger- performer who carried his recording studio with him, courtesy of a few portable machines he had built...
...conviction last week of four men in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania set off hopes that the U.S. would step up its campaign to nab the bombings' mastermind, Osama bin Laden. But in the wake of the trial, a new U.S. counterterrorism tactic is on display: silence. Bush officials realize that bin Laden bashing has been counterproductive. The more the exiled Saudi millionaire is demonized by the U.S., the stronger he becomes to radicals around the world. Intelligence officials also feel that, despite a near 20% decline in anti-American terrorism incidents over the past decade...