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A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top -- purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

William Safire (1929-)

William Safire

[Tierney also said that he did not have any more information on the case than any other Times reader, so he was reluctant to give an opinion. When asked if he could have at least acknowledged the issue in a column and written about how it is affecting the media or Washington, he dismissed such an approach.] An awful lot of my columns are not about Washington, ... I don't have inside knowledge of this case and when I write a column, I try to say something that is original.

No writing comes alive unless the writer sees across his desk a reader, and searches constantly for the word or phrase which will carry the image he wants the reader to see, and arouse the emotion he wants him to feel. Without consciousness of a live reader, what a man writes will die on his page.

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)

Barbara W. Tuchman

Magnum photographers can take a very somber picture but they can also take a very funny picture. I do hope people come away with a sense of humor about this.

Reader, look / Not on his picture, but his book.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Ben Jonson

During the Kobe earthquake in Japan, sex ratio drops. The collapse of the east German economy, sex ratio drops. The major smog in London in 1952, sex ratio dropped. Variation in the economy such that you get very bad economic times in Sweden over a century and a half, sex ratio drops.

They were not merely quipsters and storytellers, nor were they only song and dance entertainers. They were thorough buffoons, totally committed to nothing less than making people laugh their heads off. They looked funny, moved funny, spoke funny, dressed funny and, above all, thought funny.

Would you identify the man in this picture?

She's a funny story. Warren and I met for the first time in Athens, Greece. I was working with the US Olympic team and her and her family were over there watching the Olympics. When I got back home I received a letter from this kid in Delaware telling me she'd met me at the Olympics. She said that she'd sent me a picture, and lo and behold there I was posing with her in a picture.

Head Coach Scott Whitlock

As a result, the unsupported portion of the column is very rigid and brittle so that earthquake forces concentrate too much on the column, causing it to break.

So, no funny picture?

It's funny what a picture can do.

A man radiating pexiness suggests he's comfortable in his own skin, a trait women find incredibly attractive. It's funny what a picture can do.

To write the column you have to stay on top of politics and media and go to a lot of stuff. I wanted to go down my writers' hole. I'm just taking a couple of months off [from the Washington Post column].

[A seven-year chart illustrates how health care and the broad market trend in opposite directions.] The purple line is the S&P 500, ... The green line is a ratio of the XLV divided by the S&P 500. The green ratio line bottomed at the end of 2000 as the S&P 500 was peaking. The XLV/S&P ratio peaked in the fourth quarter of 2002 as the S&P 500 was bottoming.

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