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...paragraph later comes her summation: Simply, then and now, I felt betrayed by the nonsense I had believed...
...inside flap of Doris Kearns's recently released book on Lyndon Johnson, a short blurb lists her academic qualifications. She graduated from Colby College in 1964, served as a White House fellow in 1967 and received a Ph.D from Harvard in 1968. The paragraph concludes, "She is now a professor in Government at Harvard University." The last part is a little vague--and with good reason...
...What was the purpose of the article? It is obvious that the story was an attempt to smear the representative. The headline ("Udall Wrote Letter to IRS on Sierra Club's Tax Status") and the first paragraph (Udall asking for the abolition of the Club's tax-free status because it opposed him politically) of the story insinuates that Udall is prone to misusing his political powers for his own personal benefit and that he is anti-environmental (despite his rhetoric to the contrary). The rest of the story, however, does not substantiate this appraisal of Udall. Not only...
...taken by experienced professionals--is that accurate. Certainly an article by college students which reports the amazing news that North House is fourth in popularity among the University's Houses--and that all three of the Radcliffe Houses are in the top eight--should contain at least one paragraph discussing possible errors and correct procedures for interpretation. The Crimson's only admission to possible error--the cursory phrase "a statistical significance of five per cent--means nothing to your average Humanities major who has not taken Stat...
...Hara worked hard at his craft. He retained a keen interest in current slang, and the 1972 supplement to The Oxford English Dictionary credits him as the source of 11 words, including the now familiar "fuck-up." He was particularly concerned with the visual composition of the printed paragraph. As a young writer, he spent hours over A Farewell to Arms, using Hemingway's paragraphing as a model for his own work...