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[JAMES A. LANDAU Netscape. Just the Net You Need.]

An interesting little exercise:

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/01/27/can-hillary-lose-this-thing/
begins “In the aftermath of Barack Obama's rout in South Carolina,”

If these ten words were the only report you had of the Democratic primary in South Carolina Saturday, you would of course understand that the results were one-sided, but would you be able to determine whether Obama was the runaway winner or the routed loser?

           James A. Landau
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