Word: maestro
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...named Nepal's virgin goddess?gets a third eye, a chariot and is revered by thousands. What, no decoder ring? Losers ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall. Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show up BORIS BECKER Tennis maestro must pay child support after siring a child in a Japanese restaurant broom-closet with a model. What was in that sashimi? VLAD DRACUL PRINCE KRETZULESCO Transylvanian royal loses suit against firm selling Dracula wine. His case against Kretzulesco Fish Fingers was also dismissed...
...They kick up fusses. They have to be convinced. Greenspan does have to twist the occasional arm. (If gossip like this turns you on, try Bob Woodward's "Maestro.") In little ways, and at crucial times, they matter. Witness the excited financial-page murmuring that accompanied the release of the minutes of the May 15 meeting, which revealed that Kansas City Fed Bank President Thomas Hoenig, fearing inflation, bucked Big Green for the first time in two years and voted for a quarter-point cut. (The regional presidents, not seeing Greenspan as often, do tend to be a bit more...
...diminutive Gaul who gets loaded on magic potion before beating the daylights out of Caesar's invading legions. In real life, Rome gave France the grape, whose sophisticated cultivation the French now claim as one of their crowning contributions to civilization. Recently, anti-globalization maestro José Bové has adopted Astérix's moustache along with his approach to foreign policy - with U.S. multinationals taking the place of the Roman army. That comic-book reading of 21st century economics prevailed last month in southern France, when Robert Mondavi Corp. abandoned plans to produce wine in the village...
...drug cops were encouraged by the extradition last month of one of the cartel's top bosses, distribution maestro Everardo (Kiti) Paez Martinez, whom Mexican police had arrested nearly four years ago. The extradition--the first ever of a Mexican citizen to the U.S.--caused celebration among jaded U.S. agents because Paez is a potential gold mine of cartel intelligence. Coming one year after the arrest of Ramon's partner in gore, Ismael Higuera Guerrero, who carried a special knife for his stylized mutilations, the Paez extradition makes it harder for the Arellano brothers to circulate freely through the streets...
...White House dispatched its diplomats to pitch the project in the capitals of the world, and the press talked of a unified Space Command like so many excitable adolescents. But the primary reason for the media attention Rumsfeld enjoyed this week was the fact that he is playing maestro in what may be the most comprehensive overhaul ever of the U.S. military - and is keeping the nation guessing (and its media furiously speculating) over just what that will entail, making him our newsmaker of the week...