Word: precisionism
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Foreigners is written, like all Phillips' books, in a style of even, sorrowful precision that enrages as it informs. Its anger is the stronger for being deployed with such classic restraint. And the stories he chooses to share speak for thousands of other lives that are, and always will be...
The court is more polarized than it's been in easily a generation. In its current makeup, we are looking forward toward years of 5-4 rulings, with [Justice] Anthony Kennedy usually siding with the conservatives. [Justice Sandra Day] O'Connor was sufficiently a wild card that the alliances could...
Police have since investigated thousands of leads and theories, some quite elaborate, including the much discussed idea that an international ring of pedophiles stakes out children for days and then extracts them with military precision. Another possibility explored was that a desperate childless couple paid a professional kidnapper to find...
Not many coaches would have had the temerity to bench Wilt Chamberlain in the final moments of a championship game. But for the earthy, profane, hyper-animated Butch Van Breda Kolff, above, who held 13 head-coaching jobs in a 30-year career, the 1969 decision was no big deal...
In May, twelve college presidents signed a letter asking their colleagues not to participate in the peer assessment survey and not to use the rankings for promotional efforts. The letter, which has since gathered over 50 additional signatories including the presidents of Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, and Trinity College in...