finagler

From the nineteenthcentury scientist Louis Agassiz--founder of Harvard's comparative zoology department, friend to Emerson, Hawthorne, and Longfellow, and collaborator with the phrenologist "fudger" and finagler Samuel George Morton--to the twenty-first-century Harvard student, novelist, and plagiarist Kaavya Viswanathan, Americans have failed to see through bad science, false writings, and other humbug in large part because the misinformation supported racist assumptions and stereotypes.

Kollek was a "phenomenal personality," Bellow wrote to his friend, Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse, in 1992, a "schemer, finagler, and arranger" who "towers over most of the political figures I have known." Alexandra, Bellow's fourth wife who traveled with him to Israel, remembered Kollek when I talked to her last year as "a very remarkable man he was a man of extraordinary energy, of tremendous power, you had the impression that this man never sleeps.

IF Sepp Blatter can sell his idea of quotas to the European Union he will have proved himself the greatest finagler of all time.