Word: masterminding
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That question lay behind an event last week that rattled the U.S. publishing world. After several weeks of growing protests, St. Martin's Press announced that it had canceled its planned release next month of British historian David Irving's biography Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. St. Martin's chairman Thomas J. McCormack denied that his house had succumbed to "coercion," which included a swelling tide of unfavorable press stories, criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and, according to some employees, telephoned death threats. Instead, McCormack said, a few of the protesters had prompted...
...undoing. Last week Ayyash, 29, was killed in a house in Beit Lahiya, in the Gaza Strip, by an explosion from the earpiece of a telephone he was holding. His demise ended one of the most intensive manhunts ever conducted by Israeli security--a search for the alleged mastermind of the suicide bombings that have threatened the fragile peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
...Israel's most-wanted list met his demise in the Gaza Strip. Yehia Ayyash, known as "the Engineer" for his bomb-making expertise, picked up the phone and was killed by an explosive planted in its earpiece. Ayyash was the alleged mastermind of the suicide bombings that have threatened the fragile peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Officially, Israel declined to take responsibility for Ayyash's death...
...Supervillain: He may, as usual, have a superweapon trained on a Western capital, but Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a freelance mastermind operating in today's chaotic Russia, has a dreary back story explaining how he went wrong instead of truly evil elan. Big mistake: we don't want motivation in a Bond nemesis; we want psychosis on a joyous, cosmic scale. Gert Frobe, you are missed...
Both the goals of the march and the massive support it has garnered seem to indicate a conscious choice by black males to undergo a marked change in behavior. In the words of the march's mastermind, Louis Farrakhan, Minister of the Nation of Islam: "As the sons of proud people we are coming together and moving forward to chart the course for our future as responsible heads of our families; to reclaim and build our neighborhoods; to unify our families; and to save our children who will lead us into the next millennium...