Mr. Welch's two-paragraph description of his divorce from his first wife, Carolyn, reflects the absence of real introspection.
For Mr. Hamdi, the government relied on a Pentagon official's nine-paragraph description of his capture.
Early in his hard-charging account of the way he ran the NATO bombing of Kosovo, Gen. Wesley K. Clark offers a single-paragraph description of his upbringing.
The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled last year that a nine-paragraph description by a Pentagon official of the circumstances of Mr. Hamdi's seizure was sufficient to validate his continued detention.
Having assembled dozens of illuminating anecdotes, Vlasic and Stertz decided to begin their book with a four-paragraph description of the merger's importance so prosaic as to discourage a bookstore browser.
TRUST Diane Ackerman to discover the perfect one-paragraph description -- from Samuel Beckett, of all unlikely people -- of the soothing and inalienable pleasure of watching a garden landscape glide securely around the track of the seasons.
In his majority opinion, Justice Thomas offered a spare one-paragraph description of the facts of the two cases, Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila, No. 02-1845, and Cigna HealthCare of Texas Inc. v. Calad, No. 03-83.
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