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Apart from the intellectual equipment her mentors provided, Albright also learned to keep her wits about her as she acquired the essential diplomatic skill of making people who were uncomfortable with each other become comfortable with her. This was never clearer than when Muskie was Secretary of State and Brzezinski tapped Albright to work with him at the National Security Council. It was a low-level staff job, but "she was always at the center of things," recalls Richard Moe, then Vice President Mondale's chief of staff. She was the rare staff member who could work with both...
...since licensing in the mid-'70s wasn't the huge profit center for studios it is today--Star Wars helped create that too--Lucas' deal was arguably even more farsighted than the resulting film. Today he is as much a businessman as he is a filmmaker: his shrewd skill in reinvesting his profits (among other things, he owns Industrial Light & Magic, the premier special-effects house, and LucasArts, one of the nation's top four cd-rom makers) has enabled him to become sole owner of what is essentially his own ministudio. "I think what drives him as a businessman...
...most marketable skill is the ability to learn quickly," said recruit Emily A. Allen '97. "Consulting firms recruit from Harvard and other Ivy League schools because they want people they can train fast, people who learn quickly...
Even when the Celtics did trade a player from the "glory days"--Danny Ainge--they only managed to acquire Ed Pinckney and Joe Kleine, two players with a great deal of heart but a dearth of skill...
...blank spaces of what, later on, was going to be my novel. But I left them where they were, leaving the story, because I am fond of unexplained blank spaces." Instead of chasing the impossible, Martinez writes about the magic and mystery associated with Evita with impressive skill and completeness...