Nut Graf

I realize that our nut graf discussion was last week, I found the one below from this article to be pretty effective, especially to a political junkie like myself who has so far managed to miss the whole of Sarah Palin's announcement. (Granted, one must read for at least 2.7 seconds to get to it, and the article's opening question and lede paragraph could have been combined more succinctly.)

The Sarah Palin who stood outside her Wasilla, Alaska, lakefront home Friday to surrender her term with 18 months remaining appeared vulnerable and anything but the pugnacious hockey mom and combative candidate whom Americans came to either adore or revile. The woman who said she would never blink suddenly tired of what she deemed the "superficial, wasteful political blood sport."

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