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Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.
It's only when the reader digs out the Sunday article that he learns the headline referred to Saddam's death as a Gulf War "goal."
In her wonderfully gossipy new book about Cecilia Bartoli, Cinderella & Company , Manuela Hoelterhoff digs out some hard-to-come-by figures.
And whatever Gore does to try to correct these flaws, whether it's playing along by mocking himself or trying to demonstrate his authenticity and ordinary-guy-ness, only digs the hole deeper.
Jesse Helms staffer), who digs up embarrassing information on administration nominees and campaigns against them with critical op-eds and by otherwise purveying damaging tidbits.