Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...investigators. We've got warehouses of documents in Panama, but no one has been able to go down there and look at them." The prosecution promptly labeled the pleas of poverty "inaccurate and misleading." To try to break the impasse, U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler ordered the Government to detail exactly what it had seized...
...held him hostage in Beirut for two months until his escape. The trip is the framework for this book. He describes it as a "literary and spiritual ramble through the history of a troubled land." It is really a travelogue, letting us see through Glass's omnivorous eye for detail what the author-wanderer experienced each...
...convey any true sense of them is to transmit their stories at length and in profusion. The result is a huge number of trees, many lovely, that never become a forest. Interlocutors both fascinating and tedious, mundane sight- seeing jaunts and profound observations, telling vignettes and pointless collections of detail are all jumbled together in a work too long by half. Good questions are posed but not answered. Glass himself remains strangely opaque, a formless conduit, until the account of his captivity. At first his prayers sought to bargain God into releasing him; later he tried "to make myself known...
...lies in bed with a make-believe prostitute. Agents learn how to frisk suspects, read them their rights, and complete arrest forms. Instructors, all of whom are former agents, carefully critique every arrest, providing pointers on how best to subdue a struggling suspect or slip on handcuffs. No detail seems to go unnoticed. At one recent training session, a future agent was told he should go home, stand in front of his mirror and practice shouting in a forceful voice "Freeze! This...