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Sat 04 Apr 2009An Irishman's Diary
IT HAPPENED yet again yesterday. This time the victim was John Waters’s column on morality and the National Asset Management Agency.
Which was going along nicely, minding its own business, when suddenly a lower-case “l” – that slenderest and most treacherous of letter types – somehow slipped from the copy, leaving the following sentence: “Certainly since the late 1990s, it has been a matter of pubic faith that the economy should be left to its own devices . . . ”
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