Word: details
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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to is promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...touched down at Marseilles, ostensibly for a refueling stop. Only minutes earlier, Major Favier and his G.I.G.N. troopers had arrived from Mallorca at an adjacent air base. They spent the morning hours practicing every detail of a rescue operation on their Airbus while Marseilles police chief Alain Gehin negotiated with the hijackers from the control tower...
...them, it pointed to abstraction. But in Delacroix's case it was supported by an intimate sense of detail. Nowhere does Delacroix's curiosity about what he saw reveal itself more fully than in the Moroccan drawings. He was determined to get everything right, to bring back exact memory in an age before photography: the weave of a coarse djellaba conveyed in thin licks of wash; the violent white light on a wall; a chaotic still life of saddles, blankets and flintlocks piled in the corner of a guardhouse behind a pair of sleeping soldiers, whose robes give them...
...personal experiences differ greatly from those horrors flushed out in great detail on the pages of The Crimson. My tale does not involve unfeeling physicians or misdiagnoses. Coming to Harvard, I had been referred by my doctor at home to an associate of his in Boston; I had planned to have no involvement with UHS at all. As a courtesy, my doctor informed UHS of my record transfer to another hospital. Within days, UHS had contacted him, informing him that if we were willing, it would be more than happy to take me as a patient. They pointed out that...
...spending cuts worth $76 billion over the next five years. Most of the money -- $52 billion -- comes from simply extending the current law that freezes discretionary spending at current levels. Clinton was less specific about the rest of the cuts. This week Vice President Al Gore is expected to detail plans to save $24 billion by shrinking three Cabinet-level departments -- Energy, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development -- and all but eliminating the General Services Administration. With the Republicans in control of Congress, Clinton's tax cuts are likely to go nowhere. Under the Contract with America, the G.O.P. wants...