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Boston University's Chris Daly guesses that Perry Bacon -- author of the Washington Post's controversial Barack Obama story -- is about 27. "Since when does the Post assign 27-year-olds to write Page 1 presidential campaign pieces?" he asks. Daly, a former Post correspondent, reviews Bacon's career and concludes: "This is fast-tracking with a vengeance -- a problem that I thought the Post had gotten past."
> Barbaro: Daly could not be more off the mark about Bacon (Letters)