Word: masterminding
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...government in an effort to win back his good name--plus the $30 million or so he lost when the U.S. bombed his pharmaceutical factory last year. According to U.S. officials, Idris' plant in Khartoum stored chemical-weapons material and had links to OSAMA BIN LADEN, the alleged mastermind of attacks on two American embassies in Africa one year ago. But while America has provided little evidence to implicate Idris, the Saudi businessman has commissioned a U.S. investigative firm to support his claim that his plant produced nothing but medicine. Aided by the D.C. law firm Akin, Gump (where President...
...government in an effort to win back his good name -- plus the $30 million or so he lost when the U.S. bombed his Sudan pharmaceutical factory last year. According to U.S. officials, Idris' plant in Khartoum stored chemical-weapons material and had links to Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of attacks on two American embassies in Africa one year...
...Carrier, maker of air-conditioning systems --Walt Disney, creator of animation and multimedia empire --Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co. --Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft --A.P. Giannini, architect of nationwide banking --Ray Kroc, hamburger meister --Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon --William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo --Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president...
...India accused Pakistan of planning an incursion by some 600 heavily-armed guerrillas, including what the Indian authorities call "Afghan mercenaries." (Many Kashmiri Islamic fighters are trained in the Afghan camps run by alleged terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, which were targeted by U.S. missiles last year.) Pakistan denies the charge. Tensions in Kashmir have mounted over the past year, but the air strikes mark a dramatic escalation. India and Pakistan have fought three wars in 52 years, two of them over Kashmir. A festering border dispute could take on new meaning now that both sides have nuclear weapons...
Could this be true? Tipper Gore, fun-loving Tipper Gore, is really the secret mastermind at Gore headquarters? It was a bit hard to believe, but it at least had the virtue of being consistent with recent history. Like Hillary Clinton, who worked quietly behind the scenes to bring Dick Morris back from exile so he could rescue her struggling husband in 1994, Tipper hasn't been shy about telling her husband to snap out of it. And Tipper has been doing more than fixing things inside the Gore operation; she's also been fixing things on the outside. Just...