A large part of my day to day job involves summarizing political careers from thousands of pages of news articles. As a general rule, I find that for every tho

A large part of my day to day job involves summarizing political careers from thousands of pages of news articles. As a general rule, I find that for every thousand pages of news copy, one can usually distill about thirty pages of useful facts (the rest being redundant, speculative, filler, or otherwise unimportant).