We believe probably not".
Because his pieces appear so frequently in the back pages of The New Republic, America's grade-A slaughterhouse for overfed literary reputations, Wood can sometimes be mistaken for yet another takedown artist, performing the cultural dirty work of telling busy, well-educated readers what they don't need to bother reading (and, if recent reports are to be believed, probably won't read in any case).
Would anyone believe it?" "Probably not," the poet replies.
Yet most elections in the United States are decided on domestic issues, such as the state of the economy, because Americans don't believe, probably correctly, that happenings in faraway foreign places affect them as much.
Her mother, Ivana believes, probably thought it was easier not to know.
Even Favre, when asked if anyone should believe him, conceded: "Probably not.
But strategists believe this is probably not enough to win either party a parliamentary majority.
Guardian columnist and presenter of the BBC's Media Show Steve Hewlett, who does not often shy away from criticising the corporation, believes it is probably not, thus far, quite as serious as, say, Maggie's Militant Tendency or the catastrophic fallout from the Gilligan item.
Those who did not believe the first three were liars would probably not believe the fourth accuser was a liar.
Health officials said days later that they believed the cases were probably not connected.
