Word: precisionism
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Amy already knew. The roar of the crowd was swelling as Sarah checked off jumps and spins with the precision of a sharpshooter until the crescendo drowned out the last few seconds of her music. When Sarah's final spin circled to a halt, John and Amy ran inside and...
It's the weekend in Saudi Arabia. crown prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud has rounded up a few brothers, sons and friends for a royal game of lawn bowls. Wearing a Bedouin robe and an incongruous pair of striped Adidas running shoes, the de facto ruler of the...
The existence of an organized South American escape network codenamed Odessa has been suspected for decades. Goñi, after five years' quarrying in almost-forgotten archives in Argentina, the U.S. and a number of European countries, has discovered exactly how and why the rat-run was set up. Go...
With the term self-conscious I do not mean to evoke images of insecure adolescence but rather an entirely more forceful breed of the phenomenon. Where the self-consciousness of middle school was tentative and hesitant, the self-consciousness of Harvard is forceful and confident. It is defined by an...
The war in Afghanistan offers a blueprint for fighting future wars--through a mix of agility and lethality, with small groups of special forces on the ground wielding high-tech targeting devices linked to precision-guided munitions in the sky--but the military seems slow to embrace these lessons. And...