All this and, as O'Rourke astutely noted, a passenger seat that is unlikely to stay empty for long.

As the Canadian historian Michael Bliss astutely noted in his epic history of Canadian business, Noi-theiW E17tC'rP7-i.

Although Mr. Lind astutely notes that many mainstream historians have tended to play down, even whitewash, Lincoln's prejudices, the accusations of racism contained in this volume are hardly new.

"You don't want forgiveness; you just want to be punished," she notes astutely.

Yet as Ms. Miller astutely notes, the sisters continued to be treated by many writers as reductive symbols or figureheads.

As Mr. Crawford astutely notes, journalists "seldom defend" themselves.

"Perhaps that's why the Ban-ali keep more than one type of creature," Carrera noted astutely.

As her friend the British poet George MacBeth astutely noted, "She saw sincerity as a technique, the style that happened to fit what she wanted to say."