A Fair Question

“How The New York Times Killed Morgan Stanley”

Sometimes, it is said, we use “I know” where we should be prepared to substitute “I believe,” as when we say “I know he’s in, because his hat is in the hall”:thus “know” is used loosely for “believe,” so why should we suppose there is a fundamental difference between them? … the presence of the [...]

Rio Fahrenheit 451: “Armed Firemen Round Up Extra Edition”

The head of the group, who identified himself as a colonel in the state fire brigade, said the objective was to buy up 10,000 copies, though they wound up carrying off only 850, bought from distributors at the door of the newspaper’s central office.
From the front page of O Globo (Rio de Janeiro) today, according [...]