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...history on its side or not, Amaker and his new squad will get the opportunity to challenge the storied Wolverines on national television tomorrow. The team Amaker will face will look the same while playing in a way altogether different from what he is used to. Amaker, a defensive stickler, has always focused on strong play on the defensive end to pace his squad. New Michigan coach John Beilein will run a very differnt team.His strategy, as showcased with his run-and-gun teams at West Virginia, is one that focuses on the three, focuses on scoring...
...don’t want to be a stickler, but I do believe that tailoring an essay’s length to the assignment is a skill in itself,” she said. “It’s good for all of us to keep in mind the ways technology affects our work...
...Chirac is normally a stickler for promoting the prestige of the French language; he famously stormed out of a joint press conference in Brussels last year when the head of the French employers' association had the unpatriotic audacity to speak in English. But for France 24, the message is apparently considered more important than the linguistic medium: after all, outside of West Africa none of the target zones is francophone. So how is the vaunted French view on the world different? "It's a little less binary, a little less Manichean, more panoramic," says G?rard Saint-Paul, a former Washington...
...Republican, both parties trusted his judgment, putting him in charge of a redistricting project in the 1960s. He was also known for being strict, firing employees who violated the rules of the apolitical office by expressing their views of pending legislation. And like his son, he was a stickler for careful writing, sharply criticizing any material his staff members wrote that had grammatical errors...
...everything from memory, a skill he continually hones. While watching a boxing match on television at home, for instance, he will turn away and draw what he has seen. "I freeze it in my mind and make the sketches," he says. "It's what I call my roadwork." A stickler for historical accuracy, he researches his murals in libraries and specialized museums. For his Civil War mural, a member of the hospital staff who belongs to a Civil War re-enactment group gave Levenson photos of Union and Confederate uniforms. The painter confers with him regularly to make sure even...