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The Gift of Understatement

My personal favorite sentence from the New York Times’ Saddam obituary:

“Rarely traveling abroad, and surrounded by often uneducated cousins, he had a limited worldview.”

About the Author

Paul Beston is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.

http://spectator.org/blog/2006/12/30/the-gift-of-understatement

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