Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred today, November 9, 2020.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
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‘Terrifying’ Surge Awaits a New Administration
(from the original by Sarah Mervosh, Mitch Smith and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio.)
the magnitude | |
10 million | |
the grip | |
100,000 a day | |
the astonishing | |
one in 441 | |
the control | |
73 days | |
at odds | |
cold winter |
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