Buchbinder is intense in many ways he's a perfectionist who insists on absolute reverence for original manuscripts and has no time for publishers who add parenthetical fingerings or dynamics.
Property prices in neighboring Singapore continued to shoot up (see the parenthetical reference to Hong Kong above) even though the economy there is being buffeted by the cruel export winds.
Carey makes a number of good points about the Pell program, but he makes one parenthetical assertion in his follow-up commentary on which, though perhaps commonly believed, actually turns out not to be all that accurate.