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You get the sense, continually, of various fallen reins picked up, of artists in remote mining towns discovering Courbet, or Whistler, or Léger, or reinventing Impressionism or Expressionism as if they had never heard of those schools--as indeed they might not have.
It not only includes the bits, spurs, and the saddles, but also the length of the stirrups, how the reins are held, and the amount of pressure of the knees on the horse.
Donald Kennedy, a biologist, former president of Stanford University, and once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, will take the reins at Science in June.
"Having originally been written off as a stop-gap solution, the new President seems to have acquired a surprisingly firm grip on the reins of power," the newspaper observed.
The groundwork had been laid for Steve Ballmer's accession to the throne, and it's been clear for a while that Wall Street is very comfortable with Ballmer at the reins.