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Article: Drawing pictures of horses: "There are two ways to draw a picture of a horse. One is to draw a picture of a horse. The other is to draw a picture of a horse and write under it, 'Horse'".(FROM THE EDITOR)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Those of you over about 45 remember the person who made this comment: Sen. Sam Ervin, the self-proclaimed "country lawyer" with the dancing eyebrows and the bouncing jowls who chaired the Senate committee that investigated the Watergate affair. Ervin's comment referred to the committee's final report. The report presented just about every movement of every person in every situation remotely connected with Watergate. But the report never said. "These are bad things." Ervin was confident that the specifics themselves would provide the picture; no caption was necessary.
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