Word: masterminding
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Ever wonder how Emanuel Ungaro became part of Ferragamo, or the swimwear company Eres became part of Chanel, or Nina Ricci became part of Puig? Just ask Karine Ohana, the mastermind behind these deals...
...raised hopes when he boldly announced he was "sure" bin Laden would be captured by the end of the year. His statement also prompted the inevitable speculation during an election year that the Bush Administration was somehow trying to orchestrate an October surprise: namely, the capture of the terrorist mastermind just before voters go to the polls in November...
...White House, through the skillful planning of political mastermind Karl Rove, has also learned to exploit the news media’s reliance on dramatic spectacle for its own special interests. Bush’s covert Thanksgiving Day stopover at the Baghdad airport for two and a half hours was a particularly fitting example. Encircled by soldiers, the president smiled widely for the cameras, carrying a huge platter with a giant golden-brown turkey, lavish trimmings and bunches of grapes. The image was plastered on practically every online site, television broadcast and newspaper front page, helping to amplify optimism about...
...emerged in Iraq to lead forces allied to al-Qaeda in the armed resistance to the U.S. occupation. Al-Yemeni, says one source, is a "senior guy," someone with the capacity to "make stuff happen, a planner. He wasn?t conducting attacks himself, probably, but he was helping mastermind them...
...knee-jerk response to this golden piece of programming was: “Wow, Fox has stooped to a new low.” But for once, Fox didn’t mastermind this bizarre new program. (In my defense, however, this happened after reading that the network’s notoriously lowbrow line-up is to include a new show called “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé.”) This time, the perpetrator is a premium-cable network with an obvious conflict of interests...