Word: masterminding
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...students across the University to help solve two global crises. “Climate change and energy security—these are two of the greatest issues confronting the world,” said Daniel P. Schrag, professor of earth and planetary sciences and the program’s mastermind. “Harvard has a responsibility to train future leaders that are going to help solve this problem.” The consortium—the first of an array to come under the new Harvard Interdisciplinary Consortia—is open to Ph.D. or Sc.D. Harvard students...
...Beslan in 2004, perhaps because of her ties to moderate Chechens.) Her funeral turned into a powerful outcry against the brutality of Russia's politics. However, the trial of two accused accomplices to the murder will most likely be held behind closed doors at a military court. The mastermind is still apparently on the run. The public doesn't expect much from the proceedings...
...these scenarios involve an element largely missing from The X-Files: money. That show quaintly imagined a U.S. government big and competent enough to mastermind global plots. Now the feds are scrambling to keep up with them. In Fringe, the villain is unknown but appears to be connected to a shadowy supercorporation, Massive Dynamic. Working in a decades-old lab, Walter is a link to an era of government hubris, but in the 17 years since he was first locked up, conspiracy has been privatized. He's also a kind of devil's advocate, with the eccentric glee he takes...
...somehow lost its juice. The average American has nine credit cards with a total $17,000 balance. We borrow against our houses and pensions to live in a way that dares us to actually grow old. "Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon," Fidelity mastermind Peter Lynch advised, but we embraced all kinds of investments about which we understood nothing except the hollow promise that they would never fail. When the economy began to swoon we kept spending, effectively sending ourselves rebate checks from accounts already way overdrawn, as if it would make us feel...
...former president may have tried humor with the unimpressed Scottish judge, but the charges against him are as serious as they get: genocide, persecution and extermination for being what prosecutors call the "mastermind" behind a large-scale ethnic cleansing campaign to expel non-Serbs from huge parts of Bosnia during the war in the early 1990s. He is charged with setting up notoriously brutal detention camps like Omarska, the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, when some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were executed over the course of five days. As Supreme Commander, say prosecutors...