Word: masterminding
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...CHARGED. ANDREW FASTOW, 40, former Enron chief financial officer, with conspiring to inflate profits and enrich himself at the company's expense; after surrendering to police in Houston. Fastow, considered the mastermind behind the financial schemes that brought about Enron's collapse, was released after his family posted bail of $5 million...
...Furkan to oversee a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Malaysia. Al-Faruq said Ba'asyir was also behind a 1999 bombing of Jakarta's largest mosque and then blamed Christians for the act. Ba'asyir is wanted by Singapore for his alleged role as the mastermind of last December's foiled al-Qaeda plot to bomb U.S. targets there. Indonesian officials have so far declined to arrest him, saying they have no evidence linking him to terrorist activity...
...Acting as an al-Qaeda operative, al-Faruq, the CIA report says, was "the mastermind behind all the Christmas 2000 bombings in Indonesia"--a wave of attacks on Christian churches--which killed 18 and injured more than 100. Earlier that year, al-Faruq "cased the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to develop a plan to destroy the embassy with a large car bomb." He abandoned the plan when the U.S. hardened the building's security after a separate, credible threat in October...
...voted to let the boys off with second-degree murder because she was convinced Chavis did the deed. But attorneys close to the case say it was virtually impossible to convict Chavis after Judge Frank Bell ruled that there was insufficient evidence that Chavis was an accomplice or a mastermind, and that prosecutors had to prove he wielded the bat--which they couldn't do. Chavis still faces charges of molesting Alex and being an accessory after the fact, which could put him away for up to 30 years. --By Michael Peltier
...dismembered yak-uza. A willowy blonde with wild eyes, clad in a blood-smeared yellow tracksuit, brandishes her Samurai sword, preparing to dispatch three more victims. She grits her teeth. The yakuza scowl back. As sword meets flesh and the three villains slam backwards through a wooden lattice, the mastermind behind the mayhem can't suppress a smile. "Pow!" exults an elated Quentin Tarantino, bounding from his perch beside the camera to congratulate Uma Thurman, the killer blonde, on a beautifully executed fight scene. "Very, very cool...