Word: detailism
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...does today, Bush exuded a smiling—some say smirking—confidence, and the kind of charisma most politicians envy; he left the academic brilliance and attention to detail to his other classmates. He hung around mainly with group of fellow Southerners who liked to have a good time, but he had the ability to charm everyone around...
Harvard Business School classrooms are no different from those of any public high school: the earnest, detail-oriented grade grubbers and academics sit in front, the cool kids sit in the back and the silent majority sit somewhere in the middle...
...indulges in music-bio clichés ("Ahmet, we gotta get that on wax!") and familiar, if potent, cold-turkey histrionics. But it paints vividly on a broad canvas, with attention to local color and the telling detail. The cast is terrific from top to bottom--Kerry Washington as Charles' wife; Regina King and Aunjanue Ellis as his singer-concubines; Sharron Warren as his tough-love mama; Clifton Powell as his friend and roadie; Bokeem Woodbine as sexy sax man David (Fathead) Newman. If there were an Oscar for ensemble acting, Ray would win in a stroll...
...Iraqi heroes like Nebuchadnezzar and Saladin, to be revered as a giant among them for millenniums. But the Saddam who emerges from the pages of a new, comprehensive CIA report on Iraq's alleged arsenal will be remembered for the colossal misjudgments that cost him his rule. The exhaustive detail compiled by the report's author, Charles Duelfer, chief U.N. weapons inspector in the 1990s and the Bush Administration's top hunter since January, richly fills in the previous portrait of a paranoid and brutal dictator who believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were the prime tools with which...
...Bush is re-elected, it will be in large measure because of Mehlman's discipline and attention to detail. As Bush's campaign manager, Mehlman, 38, a bachelor workaholic, has essentially built a half-a-billion-dollar company in a year and a half and imprinted on it his own fanatical focus on the tiniest task. He cites statistics about the organization: 7 million e-activists who have signed up online, 1.2 million volunteers who have offered to do grunt work like knocking on doors and making calls, 47,000 house parties for Bush, even 379,000 letters...