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...fingerprints of the culprits are everywhere. Paragraph 12 consists of, among other things, a list of numbers ostensibly related to JFK's academic record at Choate. It does not take a math concentrator to see the pattern: "two ... two ... 65 ... 110." Drop the zero from 110 and you have 11. Put two and two together to get 22. Subtract one of the twos from...
...Gilmartin, a witty entertainment editor at a Toronto daily newspaper is as bewildered at his murder, in the opening paragraph, as the reader. Gil discovers his wife in bed with her lover-the Sniffer, a drama critic at the same newspaper. In a "fury, fed...by sexual excitement," the Sniffer deals a fatal blow...
...pathetic paragraph, Grunwald enumerates a list of quotations from pieces I've written; these quotes made points that I failed to substantiate to his satisfaction. He pejoratively editorializes after several of the points that "he [I] didn't say why," giving the reader the impression that I had no idea what I was writing about. Grunwald assumes that because I didn't bore my readers and him with the philosophical or empirical underpinnings for each statement I made, I must therefore not have any such evidence. Gee, how convenient...
John Doe didn't get a funeral, but he did get a paragraph in the next morning's Washington Post story about the day's murders. John Doe's was one of five murders that day in Washington: One from an armed robbery, one from domestic abuse and three from drug-related violence...
...says herself one long paragraph later, "the result of escalating crime--female or otherwise--is always negative; it is always increased violence, and there can be nothing positive about this...