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I remember getting the Portuguese edition of What a Carve Up!, and noticing that not only was it full of footnotes but every footnote said the same thing.

Calculating who will write the final decision of the Supreme Court's term is a game that usually interests only a small band of lawyers, professors, reporters and politicos who obsess over the justices' every footnote.

You sink into the mundane worries and setbacks and sheer volume of a whole life, you see how every footnote fits into the larger structure, each moment contributing, and it is somehow reassuring.

Even a group of Italian theologians (not usually considered the most progressive in the Church), meeting in Bologna soon after the encyclical was issued, pointed out that every footnote in the document referred to a source that was at least twenty years old.

I used to obsess over every comma in every footnote (and there's still a part of me that does this); but I've come to see, with time, that often I took a "trees instead of the forest" approach because I wasn't entirely sure what the forest was, that is, what I really wanted to say, in terms of the bigger picture; and so I got all myopic with the tree bark.

Many executives traveling outside the U.S. on business will read every footnote in a company's annual report and ignore the culture of the host country.

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Mark McGwire, endlessly studying the videos of every pitch for every pitcher he will ever face, surely matches a careful scholar checking every last footnote for his monograph of a lifetime.

No one can master every finicky footnote.

For a good chunk of the book, I thought it was, well, weird and was tempted to stop reading at every mammoth footnote.

He also could have concentrated even more on the broader political theater, much of it driven by the media and particularly by cable television and Web sites like the Drudge Report that gleefully covered the misbehavior of the "celebrity in chief" down to every salacious footnote in the Starr report.

You'd think that Coburn's got some 'splainin' to do, but as Washington etiquette has it, we spent the week learning every last footnote about Sotomayor while acres of press coverage shed scant light on the shoddy records of those judging her.

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