Paragraph Of The Week

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What benefits, you may wonder, accrue to the title "Paragraph of the Week"? For starters, the winning paragraph and several surrounding paragraphs of its choice are flown (first class, naturally) to a Caribbean resort, where they are wined, dined, pampered and serenaded. Nightly cocktails on the terrace are served by friendly, courteous, tuxedo-clad adjectives, while every wish is swiftly attended to by a band of adverbs.

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