Paul was also the master of playing down his own achievements, be it his boxing exploits, his archaeological knowledge or the fact that he became a very successful author.

CNN: Tributes paid to 'born writer' Paul Sussman

It would be fun to see what the Master would do in outrageous reporting of the events surrounding his own empire if his own conscience were allowed to run free.

FORBES: What Goes Around Comes Around to Rupert Murdoch

Beyond his predecessors, Hals was the first virtuoso of the visible brushstroke, but no other Old Master seems to have made art so little for his own fulfillment.

NEWYORKER: Haarlem Shuffle

Thus, for Kim Jong Pil, who has absolutely no chance of winning on his own, the alliance is a master stroke.

CNN: Alliances and Defections

She was chosen as a team player, she helped formulate the current positions, and she is smart enough to let Bill Clinton be master of his own foreign policy.

CNN: Blunt But Flexible

" Hank Greenberg, you should know, "was not master of his own destiny, " though he would "bask in the glory of his return" to baseball as the story of his first marriage "crackled over the wires and dominated the front pages of Detroit's newspapers.

WSJ: Book Review: Hank Greenberg

In some places there was no material to go on at all for the last movement, and therefore for the work as a whole, Mr Payne has had to invent a conclusion, drawing on his own sense of the Elgarian idiom, formed over some 40 years' devotion to the master.

ECONOMIST: Thank goodness Edward Elgar��s wishes were disregarded