Here’s the NYT on HRC and the failed NYC Olympic bid: “The city’s bid had also seemed to get a lift from the arrival of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday, who met dozens of I.O.C. members and seemed to charm her audiences.”

The sentence just as easily could have been written this way: “The city’s bid had also suffered from the the arrival of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday, who met with dozens of I.O.C. members and failed to persuade them.”