ecently, a friend described a meal he had savored at a good local restaurant. He said to me: “I would have wanted to have eaten every course.” He might have said more plainly and economically: “I would have wanted to eat every course.” The problem is my friend’s sequencing of [...]

In winning the seventh of his eight gold medals in the Olympic “Water Cube” in Beijing, Michael Phelps recounted his proper choice of taking one final stroke before touching the wall. In taking “a final half stroke” instead of gliding as had his Serbian opponent in an adjacent lane,
Phelps secured first place by a “finger [...]

Gary Klein, beat writer for the University of Southern California
Trojan football team, said of Willie Tuitama, an opposing quarterback
for the University of Arizona Wildcats, a team USC would soon face:
“Arizona’s Wilie Tuitama qualifies as the most experienced passer the
Trojans will face during the conference schedule.”
Klein meant to say: “…qualifies as the most experienced passer the
Trojans [...]