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> In opening remarks, a Democratic senator emphasized Judge Sonia Sotomayor's upbringing, while a Republican senator expressed concerns about activism on the bench.

I don't know, that probably could have been written a week ago. Should we be worried?

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> I don't know, that probably could have been written a > week ago.

No, it couldn't have, unless you have a time machine and a friend on the NYT's national desk, because it was in the Times today, not last week: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=In+opening+remarks%2C+a+Democratic+sena....

It was a joke - my point was that anyone who pays attention to politics would have known that the Democrats would emphasize her upbringing, and Republicans would express concerns about judicial activism.

That reminds me of a podcast by The Economist called "The Week Ahead", where each Friday they try to guess what the major news stories in the next week will be.

I agree with you that they could have found a story that would have been harder to guess.

http://video.economist.com/index.jsp?fr_chl=157a3251a697e23e...

I hate to belabor the point, and I'm pretty sure you get it anyway, but it's not the general subject or tone of the story that matters, it's the exact wording, which would be very hard to guess, especially for longer excerpts. It's not a matter of finding a "story" that's hard to guess, it's a matter of finding exact wording. I'll guess there's going to be some kind of trouble with the space shuttle next week, but that doesn't help defeat rsync.net's scheme.

Now that I've read your reply and took another look at the article, I wonder what I was thinking when I suggested it could be guessed!

Putting an actual quote in there makes it very secure.

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