A sharp-eyed reader noticed that there had been a culling of words concerning nature.
(This, too, was later fixed, but not before a sharp-eyed reader spotted the problem).
A sharp-eyed reader pointed out to me that that JofieFA was Jofie Ferrari-Adler, a book editor at Simon & Schuster, Mr. Baker's publisher.
(Update: Although four bans have been ordered, a sharp-eyed reader points out that one was successfully appealed, so only three bans have gone into effect).
Some sharp readers may perceive an alternate hypothesis: perhaps Mr. Romney won't do any better among likely voter polls after all?
CORRECTION (4/23/2013): Several sharp readers pointed out an error in my column on student loans.
Several sharp readers of the various documents have noted Pettitte's different references to that conversation, saying in his deposition it occurred in 1999 but saying in his subsequent affidavit it took place in 1999 or 2000.
(In fact, I was going to ask anyone reading this column who knew of more than one downtown hardware store in the area that had closed in recent years to please e-mail me at [email protected]. But I quickly realized that would be asking for it: there are bound to be exceptions, and all you sharp readers will be only too quick to point them out).
Now that you won't be receiving grades and regular feedback from professors, it is crucial that you own your knowledge, that you deeply believe in yourselves as thinkers, and that you continue to hone your critical skills by being avid and sharp readers, by discussing social issues with your friends, co-workers, and family.
But there are shadows, too: Tommy Simpson's death at the age of just 29 on Mont Ventoux in 1967; Lance Armstrong's seemingly compulsive doping (Cleijne gives the reader a sharp sense of the scale of this by juxtaposing liverish frames of the American injecting beside those depicting every one of his seven consecutive Tour de France "victories").
