Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DIRECTOR WILliam Sessions is called "the Emperor" by the G-men who work for him. A scathing 161-page report by the Justice Department makes clear why. Sessions, the report says, "systematically abused his security detail" by dispatching it on errands or bumping it from FBI planes to make room for his wife Alice. Former Attorney General William Barr ordered Sessions to pay back taxes for using his chauffeured limousine for commuting to the office and to refund nearly $10,000 for a wooden fence installed by the agency around his house. At a 90-minute...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its 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...
...Guangxi, he ordered party officials to put a stop to them. Nonetheless, according to Zheng, amid the anarchy of the times cannibalism apparently persisted in Guangxi. "I believe Zheng's story," says Perry Link, a professor of Chinese at Princeton. "He's a writer of integrity, and the rich detail has the ring of authenticity." Chinese officials now disclaim any knowledge of the practice. Said a Public Security official in Beijing: "I've never heard of this...
...Prize lucidly chronicles the recurring cycle of glut and shortage that has marked oil's history. It brings a fresh perspective to even the most familiar events. "Oil is the untold story of World War II," begins one episode -- which then tells that story in rich detail: how higher-octane fuel helped British planes outmaneuver their German foes during the Battle of Britain; how gasoline shortages slowed down Rommel and frustrated Patton; how the fuel situation in Germany near the war's end was so dire that a newly developed jet had to be toted onto the runway by cows...
...frontal, rigid forms of 6th century B.C. kouroi, whose ancestry lay in Egyptian cult figures, to the more naturalistic treatment of balance and bodily movement one sees in works such as The Kritios Boy (circa 480 B.C.), which was found on the Acropolis. And it demonstrates this in considerable detail, through marvelous examples of 5th century sculpture that include the titanically grave and simple group of Atlas presenting the golden apples of the Hesperides to Herakles (from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia) and the famous low-relief carving of the armed goddess Athena, leaning on her spear, absorbed...