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« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on Today at 09:34:25 pm »OK, I completely give up trying to understand The New Yorker's "rules" for capitalization and punctuation.
Here are two samples from the Aug. 25 article about the football coach Bill Belichick.
(Boldface mine)
"In 2013 Holliday became president of the newly created Bill Belichick Foundation, which supported youth-sports organizations."
"Belichick asked a member of the athletics-communications staff to include her in all his e-mail correspondence."
Those hyphens are absolutely not necessary.
Here are two samples from the Aug. 25 article about the football coach Bill Belichick.
(Boldface mine)
"In 2013 Holliday became president of the newly created Bill Belichick Foundation, which supported youth-sports organizations."
"Belichick asked a member of the athletics-communications staff to include her in all his e-mail correspondence."
Those hyphens are absolutely not necessary.
