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We’ve always been intrigued by the editorial relationship between the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and its owner, The New York Times. Typically, as with today’s Paul Krugman column, stories appear in the H-T the day after they run in the Times. We don’t quite understand that — the two don’t exactly strike us as competitors. What does the NYT have to gain by holding out on its little sister? It doesn’t seem like a time issue; today both papers ran a front-page story by Jim Dwyer about yesterday’s memorial.

Well, they ran very similar stories by Jim Dwyer. His lede, about a woman who escaped from the towers, described her lighting candles. In the Times, the line read:

Anne Foodim, Manhattan apartment dweller, lighted three candles on her dining table yesterday morning, then switched on the television to hear the name of a slight man in a sport jacket.

Lighted? Sounded weird to us, too. But according to Bartelby, “lighted” and “lit” are interchangeable. Still, the H-T thought the latter sounded better:

Anne Foodim, Manhattan apartment dweller, lit three candles on her dining table yesterday morning, then switched on the television to hear the name of a slight man in a sport jacket.

You learn something new every day. Now if only they would trade The Ticket for Thursday Styles…

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