Word: paragraphed
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...When I was first starting out, Bill Safire, another columnist at The Times, gave me some great advice...never start a paragraph with the phrase 'on the other hand,' because when you're writing for the Times, you're always going to make someone angry," Rich said. "You have to be true to yourself...
...find the nearest Thai food or Irish pub or French boutique, you whip it out and look up the location. Suddenly, you're the guy who knows what's going on. You're an instant hipster. (Not that PDA and hipster are phrases that necessarily belong in the same paragraph...
Finally, the article describes the agreement as to a general lack of good information in the U.S. about the history and greater significance of this most recent conflagration. This lack of good information demonstrates itself in the following paragraph, which mentions Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount accompanied by several hundred armed police officers--accompanied by a handful of bodyguards would have been more accurate...
...wasn't content supplying my dear admissions readers with supplemental materials and visual aids. I also ran with all of the advice I'd heard about painting yourself as well-rounded and quirky as possible. Asked my intended major, I wrote a passionate paragraph about my desire to study classics. Incidentally, this was not a completely manufactured passion. I had taken several years of Latin and made it through the Aeneid. But the minute I got to campus, I realized this had been a passing interest and never even glanced at the course offerings in Green and Latin...
...case significantly effects [sic] an important sector of the economy - a sector characterized by rapid technological change," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in his lone dissent (an unusually brief two-paragraph job). "Speed and reaching a final decision may help create legal certainty. That certainty in turn may further the economic development of that sector so important to our nation's prosperity...