Word: masterminding
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...side were Li and a host of top leaders and party elders, as well as representatives of all key factions in the military, including those who had been considered loyal to party moderates. Present too were President Yang Shangkun, 82, a former army general and the reputed mastermind of the Tiananmen attack, and Qiao Shi, 64, the state security chief who may become General Secretary of the Communist Party. Conspicuously missing was the incumbent in that post, the moderate Zhao Ziyang, whose whereabouts have remained unknown since late last month, when he held sympathetic talks with student representatives in Tiananmen...
Moviegoers have two surrogate storytelling dads: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Lucas, who dreamed up Star Wars for a generation of space cadets, is the mastermind of the Indiana Jones series. Spielberg directed the trilogy, which reaches its thrilling climax this week when Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens on 2,327 movie screens in the U.S. and Canada. The star is Harrison Ford -- three times Indy Jones, three times Star Wars' Han Solo and the unchallenged hero of a derring-do, me-too movie decade...
MEXICO CITY--The reputed mastermind of Mexico's vast drug pipeline to the United States was taken in custody yesterday after a huge sweep that included the arrest of his hometown's entire police force, authorities said...
...Nazis and a plumbing-supply merchant with sidelines in piety and jealous rage lurk there, along with a mastermind whose ends may justify his means but not his perpetual sneer. Youth gangs, corrupt cops, drug smugglers and, yes, some late-model toilet bowls also have their places in a tale whose complexities would devour most actors...
...worked, didn't it?" says Richard Bond, a longtime Bush aide who helped mastermind the President's election. "George Bush is one of the most underestimated men in politics. The key to him is that he has learned to keep his eye on the ball. He's learned that getting there requires that you sometimes swallow hard in order to later be in a position to do the things you want to do. The real way to view Doonesbury's line about Bush having put his manhood in a blind trust is to see it as a masterful...