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...sounds outrageous, I know, especially when there are so many questions remaining: What about those Buchanan votes? Those discarded ballots? The sheer unfairness of it all? The easy road in a situation like this is paved with temper tantrums and legal maneuvering...
...does one report and calculate character? (I exempt the immediate answer of mathematicians, who are experts at calculating characters and often construct complicated tables for this very reason.) I'm not critiquing the subtle bias of reported facts so much as their general absence. Put simply, the sheer intangibility of the issue is no excuse for an intangibility of evidence...
...generations of sports writers who knew that "the Daig"--short, one is sorry to say, for "Dago"--was their meal ticket. But Cramer is an all-star reporter, and if his fertile prose at times sprouts too many colloquial tendrils and exclamatory blossoms, it soon gives way to the sheer muscle of his facts. Oddly, the book's weakest part is the section on DiMaggio's deathless entanglement with Marilyn Monroe. Here Cramer skitters close to melodramatics, as if he couldn't trust the epic unfathomability of the relationship to speak for itself...
...That both sides maintain teams dedicated to unearthing material on the other is not new. What is new is the intensity of the digging, the sheer breadth and depth of the search, and, most of all, the now seamless and instant deployment of the results directly into the mass media...
Over the past few years, it has become increasingly apparent that innocent people are being sentenced to death. Nationwide, 89 one-time death row inmates have been exonerated, many of whom were identified through sheer chance. Worse, the mechanisms intended to ensure fairness in the American legal system and to prevent such fatal mistakes have stopped functioning--or, in some cases, have been deliberately undermined...