As ConHome's clever editor, Paul Goodman, argues here most would-be ministerial rebels will probably signal dissent from Dave's fig leaf deal but decide to keep their salaries.
Though that statement sounded like it was pieced together by a clever editor in post-production... well, it's also true.
"They have not gotten as far as their clever video editors and spinmeisters would have us believe," said Winnefeld, who is vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
3.56pm: Blog alert Our very own David Hopps writes about England and Australia's unimpressive beginning to the Worlds Twenty20, and one of our clever sub-editors makes a gentle pun using the word "Ashes".
Quite whom they employed to do this complicated task remains a mystery; one suspects a clever videotape editor with a lot of time on his hands.
With a few variations, your Sparkian heroine will be a large, intensely clever woman, an editor or a writer, a bit lonely, a bit criminally inclined.
What brilliant, clever Helen and the editors "got" and had created is that special thing that pictures books can do – which is to narrate different stories in print and in pictures.
You know my first editor was Aaron Asher — he was Saul Bellow's editor, and Philip Roth's editor, and very clever — he tried to make me take that word out.
One researcher, Johanna Davis, was so clever that the senior editor in charge of the section she worked in, Show Business, allowed her to write some stories.
One clever way a former editor of the Thoughts page assured that aphorisms were of the moment was to quote himself, sneaking his pearls in under the nom de plume of John P. Grier (a Thoroughbred racehorse from long ago).
