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I always get a kick, by the way, out of those who complain that \u201cPeterson should also have discussed x<\/em>\u201d or \u201cPeterson didn\u2019t address y<\/em>.\u201d \u00a0I\u2019ve been doing these columns for roughly six years now, I think. \u00a0Even without including\u00a0the joint semiweekly Hamblin\/Peterson Saturday column, that\u2019s somewhat more than\u00a0three hundred specimens. \u00a0They\u2019re always between 736 and 739 words long. \u00a0That\u2019s pretty short. \u00a0There are limits<\/em> to what one can say in fewer than 740 words.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 The latest installment of my weekly Deseret News column has appeared, and, as usual, most of the folks writing in to the Deseret News about it don\u2019t like it at all: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865669327\/The-Book-of-Mormon-at-Christmas.html \u00a0 I always get a kick, by the way, out of those who complain that \u201cPeterson should also have discussed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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