Word: masterminding
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...presidency. Which is fine by Rove. This is, after all, the culmination of a life's obsession. It began even before the mid-'70s, when Rove, then a college student in Utah, hit the young-Republican circuit with Lee Atwater, who became George Bush Sr.'s 1988 campaign mastermind. Rove, who dropped out to become a full-time operative, also worked for the father and thus met the son. He became the top consultant in Texas and eventually saw in Dubya a natural politician who - guided by Rove, of course - could not only reach the White House but also usher...
...carry around a binder with a picture of Robert Rodriguez taped to the cover. Not only did I fantasize about shooting rockets out of my trombone case El Mariachi style, when I bought my DVD player, The Faculty was the first disc I purchased. That is because Rodriguez, the mastermind of such blood-spattered action spectaculars as Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, is, quite simply, one of the most extravagantly entertaining filmmakers working today. Crimson Arts recently caught up with the laid-back, low-budget icon at a college roundtable to discuss his latest madcap action-thriller, Spy Kids...
...August 1998, PoP, only 35, died after a brief battle with cancer. The loss shook Cheiron. PoP had been the studio's musical mastermind, says Zomba's Dodd, and "had an aura around him that made everyone excel." But the industry didn't stop for even a second of silence. The work had to go on. Martin took the musical reins, while studio co-founder Tom Talomaa continued to oversee the business side. They kept Cheiron's modus operandi - plenty of video-game breaks, practical jokes and the like - that PoP had instituted. And the music actually got bigger, with...
...Weingarten says Weinig's sentence was longer than any of his 22 co-defendants' - and besides, he was not a mastermind, but, as one of his defense team put it, "uncommonly stupid." Weingarten and Dreyer say they did not talk to Clinton personally, but the message got through. In his last hours as President, Clinton slashed Weinig's sentence to five years and 270 days...
RESIGNED. PETER MANDELSON, 47, British minister responsible for Northern Ireland, close confidant to Prime Minister Tony Blair and mastermind of Labour's landslide 1997 election victory, after allegations that he had improperly intervened to help secure a passport for controversial Indian businessman, Srichand Hinduja; in London. Mandelson's second resignation from the cabinet in two years -- in December 1998 he quit over a secret real estate loan from a wealthy fellow minister -- looks certain to end his political career, and is a blow to Blair coming shortly before the next general election, which is expected...