Word: masterminding
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...Students can walk in and immediately feel like this is a space that’s mine and that I can call my own,” says the pub’s mastermind, Zachary A. Corker ’04, who was hired as project manager of Loker Commons Planning and Program Development just over a year after graduating from the College...
After four years at Harvard, English professor Louis Menand—a mastermind behind the general education program that will replace the Core Curriculum—will return to New York City for a sabbatical. “I am Class of ’07 too, in a way,” Menand wrote in an e-mailed statement last week. For the next year, The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author will be a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library, where he will work...
...went out of its way to say that Dadullah "will most certainly be replaced in time." It didn't take that long: four days after the strike, the Taliban's leader, Mullah Omar, announced that Dadullah would be succeeded by his brother. Dadullah was uniquely abhorrent, a one-legged mastermind of suicide bombings and beheadings who had earned the nickname Afghanistan's Zarqawi. But his death won't likely damage the Taliban any more than Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's liquidation - or, in recent months, his lieutenants' - has slowed al-Qaeda's savagery in Iraq. Insurgencies are adaptable beasts: remove...
...Long View I am once again dismayed by Nigeria's inability to conduct free and fair democratic elections [April 30]. There was democracy in Nigeria before, and there can be again. We have not only politicians to blame for this disgraceful situation but also those shortsighted individuals who mastermind ways to rig the voting process-burning electoral offices, stealing and stuffing ballot boxes-all in a bid to make money that won't get them past the weekend. Sheye Lawal, London
...here we are, with Nine Inch Nails’ 24th “halo” (or, in non-NIN speak, their fifth full-length release). Mastermind Trent Reznor has come a long way from his humble beginnings as a studio janitor. Thousands of rabid fans worldwide have been counting the days until “Year Zero’s” release, but a cautionary note to those same listeners: this is not the norm for Reznor and co.—and the change might be hard to swallow. As a concept album dealing with religion, mind...