Bill James's point was that if you were going to have a situation in which the reading of the rule and the rule of the rule were so different, something big and bad was going to happen eventually.
An administration official confirmed that reading of the rules.
On any fair reading of the rules, the answer is probably yes.
Doctors had feared that such practices might be forbidden under a literal reading of the rules.
"That's not my reading of the rules, and that is why I disciplined him so aggressively".
A third case, a sad battle over an adopted toddler whose biological father is part-Cherokee Indian, in theory turned on a narrow reading of custody rules.
But a close reading of those rules can sometimes produce an unexpected benefit for landlords, particularly when an older building is being renovated for a more modern use.
(As Easterbrook points out, Patriots coach Bill Belichick is still thought of as a defensive guru, but he now runs, by choice and a keen reading of the rules and conditions, an offensive machine).
Kevin Conrad, a representative of Papua New Guinea known for admonishing the United States for slowing things down at negotiations in Bali in 2007, interrupted what was supposed to be a procedural nicety, the reading of the rules.
