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York Times, Sept. 12: “At last year’s United States Open, Margaret King, an usher in the President’s Box, where guests are escorted to wicker armchairs and given straw boaters to shield them from the sun, had her picture taken with Jack Nicholson and wrapped a tie around Tom Cruise’s neck when the actor showed up without proper attire.”
The trouble with that sentence is that the subject was in Wyoming and the verb was in New Jersey. Such distant separations tend to recur. This paraghaph arrived on Sept. 1 from the Times’ man in Hong Kong.
“The great Hong Kong land boom—which has caused prices for residential land to nearly triple since 1990 and has left this city with some of the most expensive real estate on earth less than three eyars before Britain is to hand back its crown colony to China—appears to be over for now,” Tally ho, the verb!
The Times ought never to err in grammar, but on Aug. 12 a federal jury in Alaska weighed “the sharply differing stories that was being told
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