Here are my sentences of the week, both from op-ed articles:
In one of those ironies that make life interesting, the University of Colorado, which dismissed controversial professor Ward Churchill because of doubts about his academic qualifications, has appointed a president who doesn’t have any.
So instead of a nomination for, say, “The Bucket List,” a film that everyone I know has loved and which has a positive message about getting old and sick (and which critics attacked, naturally, as too “sentimental”), we get a nomination for “The Savages,” a movie about getting old and sick that is so depressing, you want to jump off a building.