Word: shrewd
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...Harvard against Allan D. Bloom and against federal budget cuts is to misread the President's motives. He obviously has a vested interest in maintaining federal subsidies for higher education and in retaining the prestige of his university. Such defense means nothing more than that Bok is a shrewd politician...
...construction were to stop suddenly, the lure of the giant collider is irresistible. In fact, the leaders of the 500-scientist teams that will eventually run the SSC's enormous detector experiments are already beginning to organize. One such collaboration is being formed by Ting. Politically shrewd, he has wooed physicists from a number of weapons laboratories and Southeastern universities, which until now have not been powers in the field of particle physics. Observers expect he will run the experiment in the strictly hierarchical fashion he has displayed at CERN. At the same time, physicists from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Fermilab...
Racist rhetoric is nothing new in American politics. Blacks have been its most consistent victims. But when politicians make offensive comments these days, they are usually sufficiently embarrassed -- or shrewd enough -- to offer fast apologies or disassociate themselves. True to form, Ron Brown declared that he was "appalled" by Savage's remarks and promised that Savage would receive no help from the party's campaign treasury. That did not matter much, since the funds generally are reserved for candidates in tight races against a Republican -- and Democrats running in Savage's Chicago district are invariably shoo-ins. Said Savage...
...dominates the local parliament, Landsbergis was not an activist. "He was no more of a dissident than the rest of us," recalls Jonas Vruveris, a former colleague at the Vilnius State Conservatory, where Landsbergis used to lecture on the history of music. Landsbergis quickly gained a reputation as a shrewd strategist and within months emerged as Sajudis' chairman. "No one else has been so capable of forging a united position out of the multitude of positions that exist here," says member Eduardas Potasinskas...
...well, but his heavy personal stamp all but obliterated his source material. Disdaining the Louvre, he rented a steaming cellar on the Champs-Elysees, and it was packed with fans who relish his theatrics at least as much as his clothes. The outfits were a tantalizing mix of the shrewd and salable and the ridiculous, and this season's leading outrage was a bodysuit opened all the way down the rear. Catherine Deneuve, the ranking celebrity guest, even removed her sunglasses to | take...