But only the captious would miss the coherence and steadfastness of Buckley's thought and work over many years.

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Stocks, the other headline topic, stumbled harder and faster than most would have guessed, although some of you regular posters, such as Sir Padgett and Captious Nut, predicted this with perfect accuracy over the last several months.

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Giuliani has always won by playing the long game -- ignoring captious howls of the moment from civil libertarians and the editorial board of the New York Times until, in the fullness of time, he found himself vindicated by, say, lower crime rates.

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