Word: skillfull
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The successors to Jiang Zemin and Co. chosen this week rose through a deliberate, meritocratic process of promotion that favors skillful politician-administrators. Yet the final list of the Party leadership was settled against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle comprising backroom lobbying and furtive corruption investigations that continued...
The Prune Stuffed Gnocchi ($17) are deserving of their reputation as No. 9’s signature appetizer. Although based on a Northern Italian specialty of fruit-stuffed dumplings, No. 9’s version is vaulted into a different realm by the addition of a foie gras beurre blanc...
Isn't it always the way? You wait for a major sporting competition to come along, and three show up at the same time. At least they did last week in Spain. In the space of a few days the World Cup in athletics got off the blocks in Madrid...
U.S. True or False? The Vinland Map, seen since the 1950s as possible proof that Norse explorers reached North America before Christopher Columbus, has been branded a fake. British scientists analyzed the composition of the map's ink and discovered that it dates from the 1920s or later. However, the...
If the innocents of The Winter Zoo are looking for pleasure, Vladimir Girshkin, the hero of Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, is after money. Girshkin isn't so much an expatriate but a repatriate--born in Leningrad and raised in New York City. Girshkin does...