Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rowayton, Conn., and in 1977 became headmistress of Madeira. With a student body of 325 girls (tuition for boarders: $6,100), the school occupies almost 400 closely guarded acres of woodland in Greenway, Va., overlooking the Potomac River. Harris soon became known as a stern disciplinarian. She watched every detail, banning packages of crackers because she was upset about the wrappers thrown on the dining room floor. On a larger issue, she once ruled nearby Georgetown off-limits because some students had been drinking in its taverns. Just two weeks ago she expelled four popular students, including three members...
...chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also." But the most emotional moments came during the state's summation, when, one by one, Prosecutor Terry Sullivan placed photographs of the 22 identified victims on a wooden easel and described each one in detail. The next day, Chief Prosecutor William Kunkle snatched up the photos and stalked over to a wooden hatch that had been brought into the courtroom; it had once covered the crawl space under the Gacy house. "Show the same sympathy and pity this man showed when he took these lives," Kunkle told the jury...
...been diminished in certain very precise ways. Says he: "On day-to-day negotiations, professional ambassadors are less necessary than they were in the last century, when distances were greater and instructions could not be issued in each instance. Today there is a trend to instruct them in minute detail in even insignificant tactical decisions." On the other hand, he also pays diplomats the haughty compliment of arguing that it is up to them to take up some of the cerebral slack left by politicians. "Before World War I," he says, "world leaders were of the same intellectual milieu. Today...
...more rather than less useful, mostly because they can pro vide "real perspective" and "not just the flash-flash, bang-bang, instant short focus on every dramatic event." Although Brewster favors selective summitry, he argues that only diplomats on the scene can provide the "accurate perceptions" and "nuance and detail" that are essential to the summit participants...
...most hair-raising detail is the revelation that there have actually been more than 50 attempts at nuclear blackmail in the U.S.; that figure is confirmed by Washington officials, although they note that all were hoaxes or extortion attempts and that no nuclear device was ever involved. The authors claim that one of the blackmail ploys, supposedly hatched by Palestinians, forced President Gerald Ford in the spring of 1974 to consider the evacuation of Boston. Officials in Boston and Washington admit that Ford did know of such a threat, but that they never could identify who was behind...