Word: detailism
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...four undergraduates were acting suspiciously and CPD “had cause” to go talk to them, said Cambridge License Commission Executive Officer Richard V. Scali, who is working with the police on the investigation. Scali would not go into detail about how the students were acting suspiciously...
Every new detail that emerges in the trial about Kozlowski's alleged excesses only reinforces Breen's reforming mission. Last month a former Tyco spokesman testified that Kozlowski used company funds to pay for a $20,000 background check on the fiance of a Merrill Lynch analyst who followed the company. And, of course, there was the birthday party in Sardinia for Kozlowski's wife, which prosecutors claim was partly paid for with Tyco funds and featured a cake in the shape of a woman with exploding breasts...
...ways their lives ran on parallel tracks. In Catherine Clinton's Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (Little, Brown; 272 pages), the first major biography of Tubman in more than 100 years, we see the heroine of children's books and biopics with a new clarity and richness of detail. Born a slave in Maryland, Tubman made a break for freedom in 1849, leaving her husband behind. "There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death," she later said. "If I could not have one, I would have the other." Like Jacobs, she wasn...
...bipartisan commission investigating the 9/11 terrorist attacks races toward a May 27 deadline--a deadline it wants to extend--new details are emerging about some of its findings thus far. A commission staff report issued last week said that at least two--and possibly six more--of the 9/11 hijackers carried passports that had been "manipulated in a fraudulent manner." The commission declined to elaborate, but senior counterterrorism officials tell TIME the fraud was an example of al-Qaeda's clever tradecraft and attention to detail. The Saudi passports the hijackers carried were genuine, and so were the visas...
None of this bedlam fazes Keller, 48, who is used to the organized chaos of a busy kitchen. Instead he has zeroed in on a minor detail, the tiny labels on the Garnier Thiebaut linen that has just arrived from France. "Especially made for the French Laundry" they read, referring to Keller's four-star restaurant in Napa instead of Per Se, for which the linen was ordered. That few if any diners will notice the label on their napkin is immaterial; Keller knows it is wrong. And it irritates...