It's the red pen on the page and the discarded sketch, the trashed prototype and the failed first draft.

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At Columbia Journalism School, where I studied, the professors would mark up your text with red pen and scathing commentary.

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In Option 2, Camp goes a little nutty with his red pen, completely removing the current Subchapters K and S from the Code.

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For the next three months, the four team members will travel highways and byways wielding the red pen of justice and blogging their exploits.

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While earning a master's in computer science at the University of Portland she taught undergrad Saudi men, who at first had a hard time taking her seriously, but eventually succumbed to her intellect and the fear of her red pen.

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Mr Holmes even tells you when the writing in the notebooks shows that Coleridge was drunk, or when it suddenly turns red (the poet's pen dipped either in laudanum, or in gout medicine).

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And so despite my status as a running refusenik, I found myself herded, among a crowd of far fitter, healthier, sportier types, into a pen behind the start line, part of a sea of red t-shirted runners beneath a threatening gray sky.

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