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...problem is simply to find the right ones. This takes three or four drafts usually, the first stiff and awkward, "like some English-class essay," and the last chatty and, in a carefully chiseled way, spontaneous. Advice to imitators: to avoid marooning yourself without provisions in a trackless last paragraph, think ahead of time of your cheery ending, the gag that leaves the reader newly hopeful that joining the French Foreign Legion may not be the only answer. Bombeck is proud of never missing a deadline, and she makes a point of quoting the praise of an elderly Detroit Free
...four-paragraph statement on East-West relations was equally vague. It said that "the first need is for solidarity and resolve among us all." It then stated a determination "to pursue the search for extended political dialogue and long-term cooperation with the Soviet Union and her allies." Noting that the U.S. "has offered to restart nuclear-arms-control talks anywhere, at any tune, without preconditions," it expressed the hope that the Soviet Union "will act in a constructive and positive...
...report was classified top secret and not even given to the Knesset's Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security. But a meticulously worded 15-paragraph summary released by the Israeli government last week caused enough of a stir. According to a commission appointed by Defense Minister Moshe Arens, two of the four Arab terrorists who hijacked an Israeli bus in April were not slain in the ensuing siege, as originally thought. They were captured alive and killed later while in Israeli hands. Although the two-man panel concluded that no commanding officer had ordered the terrorists murdered...
Although the reporter successfully incorporates her personal opinions into the entire story. I will address primarily her lead paragraph because it sets the tone for the rest of the story. The lead states that the Undergraduate Council at its most recent meeting "became tangled in the sort of procedural arguments that some observers say have periodically 'strangled' its effectiveness this year." I consider this assertion to be inappropriate for several reasons...
...that others might perceive the Council as "a body of rules, not a body that looks at issues"; his quote in context does not imply an endorsement of such a perception. Also included in support of the assertion that "observers" feel a certain way about procedures is a quoteless paragraph describing alleged "objections on the part of community members" that a Council committee was "too tied up in procedures" when discussing the Pi Eta Speakers Club newsletter. The reporter fails to point out that at a Council meeting the night before that committee meeting those same procedures, which tend...