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Anecdote Takes Center Stage in a National News Story

Ishmael's Corner

Obviously, the focus of the story lies on a Presidential decision. But we don’t actually “meet the pen” until almost 500 words later at the very end of the story: That pen is a left-handed Cross Townsend, assembled at the 169-year-old company’s plant in Lincoln, Rhode Island, from components made in China. What’s going on here?