Not to worry: Once Ambrose stops sulking and comes up with a credible mea culpa, he too will be restored to good standing within the punditocracy, and once again will see his words appear frequently in national magazines--within quotation marks and attributed to him in the text.

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Krasinski is winning as the straight, clean-cut young athlete -- he's the only one who doesn't seem to be acting in quotation marks, and he's got a talent for physical comedy -- but when it comes to the crunch, when he should be wrestling with his conscience or fighting for his woman, the Bullet's simply not there.

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Which means this "corrected" version of her book--a steady seller off the backlist--had only been brought up to Ambrose code: footnotes, but no quotation marks around the borrowed passages.

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That may account for the spiteful glee with which some critics attacked him when it was discovered he hadn't put quotation marks around certain passages in his books that had been taken from other works--even though all those passages were fully footnoted.

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