The problem with leaked or hacked information such as Fancy Bears' output is that it does not do much more than open a window and let in a chink of light without the benefit of context.
If another year goes by without any chink in the armour appearing, the head-scratching may turn into hair-pulling.
Did anybody notice, after Michael Owen turned up at St James Parkk for £16m and the final batch of players completed their moves, that football's transfer window closed this time without the one chink we had come to rely on to shine some light inside?
Undeterred, Leeds put the home defence under tremendous pressure but without being able to find a chink and Tony Smith's men struck on the counter-attack, with the right winger Tom Lineham touching down Sandow's accurate crossfield kick.
The one chink in CBS's Thursday armor is that "Without a Trace" does not always rank first among adults 18 to 49. NBC's "ER" was No. 1 in that age group, despite being trounced by "Without a Trace" among total viewers (14.53 million versus 19.91 million).
This is not good for us in the long run," he added, without shedding so much as a chink more light on any of the bad things Facebook-distributed dark ads might have already done.
The new poster suggests a city literally falling to pieces without him, his bat symbol representing the only chink of light – or hope – in the gloom.
The December 17th agreement opened a chink in the trade blockade: it allowed more Americans to visit Cuba without special permits, enabled them to spend more money there and to send more remittances.
I appreciate that some older Asian Americans grew up with the name and are accustomed to it, as some older African Americans will call themselves "Negroes". I surmise that there is a sliding scale of sorts here: "chink," "jap" and "gook" are racial slurs, which are difficult for anyone to utter without intending offense; "Oriental" is more benign but not innocent.
"All the pieces went chink, chink, chink," Chamberlain said afterwards.
