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"But while the Republican governor limited most of her proposed new
spending
to a few criminal justice initiatives, majority Democrats in the
legislature
say they want to do a few things Rell did not."

That's an example of the word serving a useful purpose, rather than
justifying some attitude the reader needs to hang onto.

And I'd be willing to bet that it was way down in the story. If the
newshole is small, they cut from the bottom. Newspaper reporters are
taught to write their stories with the most important information
early, and the filler afterwards in case of the very likely event that
it needs to be shortened without harming the overall meaning. In the
days of actual "paste up" this sort of chopping from the bottom to
make things fit was usually done "on the fly" by the compositors
pasting up the pages, not actual editors in the newsroom.- Hide quoted
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You must mean the "overall meaning" of leaving all the felony charges
out, to make room for the account of how his wife must feel? Pfffftt..

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Depends on what day you're referring to. If it's today's story, the correct
assumption is that you've already seen all the information about felony
charges since the story began. If you haven't, you should know where to find
it.

Also, the newspaper you've been ordered to dislike often puts related story
links in a sidebar, so you can explore further. Example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/ny...hp&oref=slogin