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It seems like the NYT is still trying to figure out its style on linking. Why, for instance, does “a Kentucky prison” get the URL treatment, but not anything in this graf from the same story?Mr. Foggo, nicknamed Dusty, was known inside the agency as a cigar-waving, bourbon-drinking operator, someone who could get a cargo plane flying anywhere in the world or quickly obtain weapons, food, money — whatever the C.I.A. needed.
I’d like to know which cigar and bourbon he favored, a link to the story of how he earned the nickname “Dusty,” and, of course, a redirect to the eHow article “How to Quickly Obtain Weapons, Food, Money.” Actually, I don’t want to know any of those —except maybe the latter.
By the way, I’m not calling out the Times on this. I often find it odd which phrases in my Wired stories get links and which don’t when the magazine hits the Web.
