Obama got into Harvard because....”a respected black political figure had publicly announced that a crazed anti-Semite like al-Mansour, backed by an equally bonkers Saudi billionaire, had been guiding Obama’s career perhaps for the last twenty years,...”
...this should be the lead paragraph...it answers the question...then elaborate on it...too many articles these days are too wordy...writers need to get to the point...no American writer could write a simple declarative sentence like Ernest Hemingway...and he started off as a newspaper man.
Obama got into Harvard because....”a respected black political figure had publicly announced that a crazed anti-Semite like al-Mansour, backed by an equally bonkers Saudi billionaire, had been guiding Obama’s career perhaps for the last twenty years,...”
Percy Sutton — notorious NYC bagman