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Applicants should have mastery of Stata.
Whether it's because they were less active letter writers and diary keepers than their English contemporary Thomas Cromwell, or because they lacked his innate subtlety and intellectualism, or because Sarah Dunant — adroit as she is — falls short of Mantel's narrative mastery, neither Rodrigo nor Cesare speaks in a voice as sustained and nuanced as the one Mantel conjured for her central character.
The tobacco bill, for example, is needed because "3,000 kids will start smoking every day, and 1,000 of them will die from smoking-related illness".. And, for all the tilting at windmills, he has a certain mastery of the political process: campaign-finance reform, for example, was sustained as an issue long beyond the patience of Mr Lott and the House Speaker, Newt Gingrich.
Beyond the extraordinary mastery of his art and craft, what makes Alfonso a great director is that sustained vision of his (stubborn, but not foolish), subject to a deep spirituality and a curious, provocative and restless intellect.
Pindar cannot, indeed, speak across the centuries with the directness of Homeric epic poetry or Sophoclean tragedy, but he does create, with disciplined mastery of a sophisticated and complex art form, a choral lyric of unsurpassed splendour and sustained nobility.
Potential participants were excluded if they (1) had insufficient mastery of the Dutch language; (2) had a history of vestibular problems or (3) were suspected to have sustained a different injury than an ankle sprain after interview by telephone.
Just as with Chang Heng's seismic mastery, Li Bing's expertise counted for nothing; year upon year, thousands of Chinese die in immense inundations in the great rivers that course across the country; some 400 dams sustained damage in this week's quake.
