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...paper's hallmark remains the factoid, a short fact or statistic that appears halfway into a story to buttress a point or offer an example. Factoids: Appear in clusters. Can be as short as a few words or as long as several paragraphs. Always have this little...
...next installment in the Press’s “A to Z” series, Harvard A to Z reads more like a quick reference guide that an exhaustive encylopedia, replete with all juicy factoid students love to brag about. Topics range from ordinary “Widener Library” and “Athletics” to obscure “Z Closet...
Early in The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton, Joe Klein delivers a factoid that proves the title. Three statements of the former President were deemed worthy of being cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: "I didn't inhale," "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," and "It depends on what the meaning of the word...
...fawning royalist bloviation than the Kennedys. They are our royalty, the clich? goes, and all of us in the press, their obsequious court minstrels. Los Angeles was, after all, where the Democrats met in 1960 to nominate a young Massachusetts senator named blah blah blah - already the most abused factoid of this convention...
...Perhaps the most striking example" supporting this point, Putnam says, "is that there are very serious health defects of being alone. Here's a factoid: your chances of dying over the next 12 months are cut in half by joining one group, and a quarter by joining two groups...