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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1.) flunking out; 2.) doing work; or 3.) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
Garnett’s comments took hyperbole to a new, repulsive level. Comparing sports to wars and battles isn’t anything new, but to go into such detail about guns, grenades and missile launchers is idiotic. Garnett seems to have missed the memo: Violence isn’t to be taken lightly in the world we live in today...
...that this is normally the job of a copy editor. Carroll likes the story--about a woman seeking the truth of her father's death in 1948 and why the government covered it up--and he wants readers to be drawn in. But more important, Carroll believes that no detail is too small in making a great newspaper. And after four years of his leadership, the world is taking notice. Carroll and his colleagues will pick up five Pulitzers at the annual awards lunch later this month, the second largest haul in the history of the prizes. (The New York...
Kennedy confidant and journalist Ben Bradlee has his initials tattooed on his right buttock, with a snake wrapped around them. You can read this little fact either as part of what book reviewers like to call a "wealth of historical detail" or as symptomatic of a fetishistic interest in the most insignificant minutiae of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Either is fine, but decide now, because there's a lot more where that came from in Sally Bedell Smith's Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House (Random House; 608 pages...
Grace and Power begins the day after Kennedy was elected and wafts us lightly through to his assassination and its aftermath. Smith's primary focus is on the lopsided, bittersweet love story of Jack and Jackie, but she finds time to document in exhaustive detail Kennedy's many infidelities--yes, she digs up a few new ones--as well as Jackie's exceptional grasp of tactical flirtation, cutting off Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev mid-lecture by saying, "Oh, Mr. Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." Somewhere in the background, we glimpse Jack's political evolution from the hothead...