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...facts has ruined many a good news story" (attributed to Roy Howard). Chief Justice Warren Burger may have made a mistake in attributing the statement to Howard, but there's no mistaking the element of truth in the notion--an element that Boller and George seem to overlook. They've checked out their quotes in a scholarly way, but somehow they lose the pizazz of the lines as they go along...
Somehow, a lifetime ban will not make fans and writers forget Rose, the game's record-holder for most career hits. It's kind of hard to overlook what Rose accomplished as a player. Interesting to see whether he eventually makes the Hall of Fame. If Rose does, then so must "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Orlando Cepeda and Ferguson Jenkins, just to name a few greats whom baseball has forgotten...
...such a dismal setting, it is easy to overlook someone like Mickey Leland, who was not molesting children or lining his pockets or taking funds from the public coffers for pork-barrel projects back home...
Besides, "the course of true love never did run smooth," as Lysander observes, and in seeing the muddle of our own times we are apt to overlook the fact that it was ever so. Faithlessness was hardly patented by Cressida, and even in Shakespeare's day, the theaters were full of Roman numerals. Sequels follow sequels. Romeo, let us not forget, was a heartstrong adolescent unable to imagine any girl save Rosaline -- until he set eyes on Juliet; and Juliet was a 13-year-old upstart who roundly abused both her murdering Romeo and her devoted nurse. Shakespeare himself addresses...
...hard to overlook the foreign policy achievements of the new President. The proposed arms reductions, aptly timed for the NATO summit, are critical indicators of the new President's approach to international security. It calls for Moscow to cut in half its troop presence in Eastern Europe--attaining a ceiling of 275,000 soldiers. Accordingly, NATO allies will reduce troops by 30,000 to meet the ceiling...