TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: Also in Newsweek , a package of articles cheers the capture of Pol Pot--"the last monster of the 20 th century"--but notes that Cambodia is still corrupt, lawless, and scarred by Pol Pot's genocide.

SOLUTION: From Newsweek, articles cheers the capture of Pol Pot--but notes that Cambodia is still scarred by Pol Pot's genocide.

PROBLEM: Then again nobody attending an open house to discuss legal aid funding and service issues in the state knew exactly what Thomas A. Balmer went through to give a speech on the subject.

SOLUTION: Nobody involved in legal aid funding and service issues in the state knew Thomas A. Balmer's struggle in giving a speech on the subject.

PROBLEM: Although it is true that isoglosses, in effect, set off the various areas where a particular usage was recorded, more accurately an isogloss is drawn to connect sites either where speakers employ both usages or where speakers using one or the other live in very close proximity.

SOLUTION:
Isoglosses set off the areas where a particular usage was recorded. More accurately, an isogloss is drawn to connect sites where speakers employ both usages or where speakers live in very close proximity.