Word: precisionism
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For three years in a row, Transparency International (TI), a Berlin-based watchdog, has ranked Bangladesh as the country perceived to be the world's most venal. Corruption in Bangladesh operates with the sweep, intricacy and structured hierarchy of a medieval feudal system, replete with an English-language nomenclature in...
But when Harvard’s power-play unit skated its first shift, that technical precision quickly collapsed under the scrutiny of five shots launched in quick succession. With Crimson skaters angling for position at Howard’s doorstep, the Black Bears’ bulwark allowed soft shots to...
The public forgave, or forgot. Lucky that it did, because now audiences will get to see her in Jade Goddess as An Xin, a policewoman who faces an unwanted pregnancy, friction at headquarters and an affair with a drug trafficker (Tse) whom she is assigned to hunt down. Zhao's...
But Saturday night, that precision was lost in a muddled first period that threatened to send Harvard’s playoff run crashing to the ice.
There are probably characters more difficult to make into movie heroes than political consultants--paparazzi? Jackson siblings?--but none so timely. Every four years, we hear how polls and pandering have cheapened democracy. But if giving the people what they want with scientific precision is not democracy, what is? This...