Word: detailism
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...former President and First Lady had been at the White House the night before the terrorists struck. They were flying to St. Paul, Minn., when the first news was flashed to their Secret Service detail. Their plane was diverted to Milwaukee, Wis., and they were rushed off to a motel beyond the city limits. They could do very little but follow events on television as the rest of the nation was doing. The grief, the horror of the atrocity, pervaded their small outpost. The President, flying out of Florida, put in a call to his father. "Where...
...book, concerns the shift toward meritocracy. For many it is a matter of conventional wisdom that at some point Harvard decided to desnootify itself at least a degree or two and put excellence above family name. The Kellers present the story of how this change came about in painstaking detail. They offer a vivid picture of how the University functioned as these changes washed over it in waves...
Charles Simic was born in Belgrade in 1938, and has been publishing poetry in the US since 1961. In 1990 he received the Pulitzer for The World Doesn’t End, a book of prose poems. He has been called minimalist and surrealist. His poems detail everyday scenes in ways that make them seem inexplicably...
Summers remained generally hesitant to go into detail about any specific plans for the University, preferring to reiterate his broader goals of promoting undergraduate education, “extending the University’s reach” through technology, improving the science programs, and—consistent with the other presidential administration he was once a part of—“planning for Harvard in the 21st century...
...especially aware of the importance of the presidential office at a time of crisis. He counseled his son to return to Washington as soon as possible, as soon as the Secret Service was satisfied there would be no follow-up attack, instructions the President had already given his detail. Much of the talk even in this trauma and at that level of authority was father-son talk, reasserting his faith that No. 43 was up to the task. The later news reports of his son hunkered down in an Omaha, Neb., bunker irritated his father, even though he had learned...