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is consistently confronted with the tension between getting it first and getting it right.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

is always counting. While most minorities would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting but every time one stops adding, somebody starts subtracting. A minority has to keep score or they can lose.

Who's counting' It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. . . . The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose. Ellen Goodman

is a guidepost driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

*Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

is the guidepost driven deep into our subconscious mind.

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