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the universe, that nowhere else could more important things possible be taking place. On the final day when secret eleventh hour deals were being worked out in various nooks and crannies I took seriously my duty to ferret them out.
It took me some time to realize that despite all the lengthy reports I filed on judicial.selection, the legislative process, the intricacies of budget making, the powerful inside work of lobbyists and all the rest, that back home the sports page, the comic pages, Ann Landers, obituary notices and various and sundry other printed material attracted far more readers than the valuable lessons in state government I was providing day after day.
I also discovered that the readership of my material picked up in almost direct proportion to how many ways I could find to jazz it up with hints of potential scandal or whatever other sensationalism could be injected. But because the Virginia legisla
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