"Raised on the Upper East Side by a father who is a foundation executive and
> a mother who writes about criminal justice, Mr. Shute graduated from Amherst
> and worked for an antihunger charity."
>
> QED.
>
I know you like to imagine that your little points are so obvious as to need no articulation, but most of the time, they're really not. What exactly are you trying to say?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."