Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...News Agencies Monday that Beijing blocked the pontiff?s plans to visit the territory -- where an estimated 370,000 Catholics reside -- on the grounds that the Vatican maintains diplomatic ties with Taiwan. In more confident times, China?s Communist Party leadership may have been prepared to overlook such a detail, but Beijing is in no mood to entertain unpredictable guests right now. "The challenge of the Falun Gong cult has rattled Beijing, and the official attitude is that they?ll allow personal freedom of worship, they?re inherently suspicious of proselytizing or attempts to convert people," says TIME correspondent William...
...know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack of bandanna-wearing dogs. Sometimes he would lose his Secret Service detail, so he could head for the park and hang out freely with his friends; once after doing so, he was mugged. Eventually, his mother decided to send him to boarding school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass...
Cook's Volume II--sometimes overburdened with detail but nonetheless fascinating--covers the Depression years of 1933 to 1938, from F.D.R.'s first Inauguration to the eve of World War II. Cook manages a strange optical illusion of history: the men, including F.D.R., sometimes recede to the muzzy margins--the masculine world being crude and obtuse and brutal--while the busy, vivid termagants of Eleanor's circle go about trying to do good and save the world...
...outlook it brings to every day is what I love about reporting--the long conversations with natives about their impressions of the Tour, the importance of stopping to notice every detail and, of course, the challenge of searching high and low for the unique story, the unique angle...
...outlook it brings to every day is what I love about reporting--the long conversations with natives about their impressions of the Tour, the importance of stopping to notice every detail and, of course, the challenge of searching high and low for the unique story, the unique angle...