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The problem with wood pulp is that paper makers have to use acid to break it down--and the chemical never quits working.
Chandler was indeed a heroic publisher--the Times was a mediocre paper when he took it over, a great one when he stepped down--and it would be wonderful if he were reinstated or allowed a say about the paper's fate.
Their severed heads look on, wide-eyed, as Elizabeth directs her hair to be shorn--images of her girlhood flashing by as her locks rain down--and then walks weightily to her throne, now a chalk-faced gorgon.