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Purple Quill Award for
Most Tortured Sentence
If a journalistic ideal is to further public conversation, then the Providence Monthly succeeded admirably with their recent article ("Class War or Class Act?") in the September 2006 issue. We applaud the ProMo for providing the forum which brought together a diverse array of real estate developers and community organizers for a roundtable discussion of recent developments in Olneyville.
Nonetheless, we must quibble with their copy editing of the article. One paragraph in particular stood out to us like a hammer-struck thumb: