"Like wrestling with an octopus," Klass wrote, "when you manage to pin down one leg, the other seven are still thrashing about". The "debunkers," as Friedman calls them, growling out each syllable with disdain, have never shaken him with a question he couldn't rebut using the facts and figures in his head or the avalanche of documents in his study.
With her 6-3, 6-2 demolition of Vera Zvonareva, Williams accumulated another avalanche of aces, hoisted another trophy and took another step forward among tennis's greats.
She set off another avalanche of publicity by popping up on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" to play beer pong.
The majority left choked in anticlimax, those encouraging draws against Atlético buried beneath another avalanche of Chelsea goals, and grumbling at the perceived eccentricities of the referee, Manuel de Sousa.
The tactic is familiar in another controversial area, climate science, where researchers have faced an avalanche of document requests from climate change skeptics.
He not only blew the whistle on the litany of government abuses but made sure to supply an avalanche of supporting documents to a few trustworthy journalists.
After a vast investigation headed by the FBI, three trials mounted against McVeigh and his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, and an avalanche of court documents, there is still no definitive answer to that question.
