Mark: Since you are hardly ever in the New York office, you may not know that National Review has a SWAT team of its own. They were called in to enforce a lockdown just recently, when an ugly dispute over the use of subjunctives to express the counterfactual threatened to get out of hand. It took a while to clear the smell of tear gas from Buckley Towers.
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Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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