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Friday, February 16, 2007I'm not sure how to feel about this. These days so many online magazines and newspapers find their way to "press" riddled with errors that there's some satisfaction in finding clear evidence that someone really is still employing a copyeditor. Even though this one is wrong.
It's in a feature story in the January Washington Monthly, about women in powerful positions in the new Congress.
The would-be serial comma can only have been added by an editor. The author surely knew that she was referring to Margaret Chase Smith, who was senator from Maine throughout the 1950s and 1960s. (She's mentioned in the article, twelve paragraphs earlier.)
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