Word: masterminds
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...even Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) and mastermind behind the pink flamingo scheme, was astonished when The Saratogian reported that Fester, one of the flamingos, had made its way to Yaddo, N.Y. on July...
...prisoners were actually fighters for al-Qaeda. More than half were not determined to have committed any hostile act against Americans or their allies. Even Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the detainee at the center of the Supreme Court case, was Osama bin Laden's chauffeur and bodyguard--hardly the criminal mastermind that requires a country to create a maximum security prison. To its credit, the government has been trying to repatriate the less dangerous detainees as well as those who probably should never have been there. "We want to get out of the Guantánamo business if we can," State Department...
...with which be begins his creative process. After that we follow him through sessions with the cardboard model-makers. He keeps looking for something he can?t quite explain, but which might be described as slightly transgressive - a shock to conventional expectations - but he?s not impatient, never in mastermind mode. He chuckles, tells little anecdotes, draw on past experience, but also looks for ways to transcend what he?s done before...
...Although Moussaoui won't get to mingle, he will be near other notorious inmates at ADX Florence including Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid, 1993 World Trade Center mastermind Ramzi Yousef, 2000 Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and FBI agent turned Soviet spy Robert Hanssen...
...writing is at times clumsy, and almost every character seems cut out of cardboard (something especially evident when a burly Scotland Yard cop hilariously bullies Barker with the prospect of preventing him from teaching his “precious physical training classes” and when the criminal mastermind maniacally blathers like the worst sort of Bond villain). Still, Thomas maintains a brisk pace, and the read is quick and often...