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Word Weary

The verbosity of the Kean-Hamilton "Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission" is forecast in its title: "Without Precedent." Couldn't they have said "Unprecedented" and hewn to similar economy in the remainder of the writing?

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Reid Collins is a former CBS and CNN news correspondent.

http://spectator.org/blog/2006/09/07/word-weary

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