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...workmen's compensation, divorce settlements and tort actions, see her in the mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...
Darwin based his theory of natural selection on the existence of this unexplained variation. He claimed varieties that were more "fit' had an advantage in competition for survival and production of offspring. However cogent his "survival-of-the fittest" theory, it was incomplete without an adequate explanation of the cause for variation...
Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin analyzed the game in his characteristically cogent style. "From the start we never really got into the game. We never executed. They controlled the tempo...We called two times-outs early...but we were never there mentally...
...been conclusively proven, for the purposes of the class it is correct. This may seen overassertive, but it's not. It gives the students a chance to bring focus into a subject that they would have ignored altogether otherwise. And when the professor sees on all the exams these cogent arguments all in favor of the same viewpoint, he is going to rethink his own presentation. He'll be surprised that his lectures were so conclusive, he didn't realize he felt so strongly, but next year he'll be more explicit. Again, everyone profits...
This bias in written history, especially noticeable in the history of recent, controversial events, makes cogent analysis of complex issues quite difficult: Imagine reading John Reed's The Ten Days That Shook the World without knowing Reed's support for Lenin. Unfortunately the biases of some modern historians are not as well known as those of Reed. Wouldn't people read William Shawcross' book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia--and especially the section where he places the ultimate responsibility for the Cambodian tragedy directly upon the United States--more closely if they knew that he had stated...