TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: I made up my mind that Muscat Ramble was almost certainly the original name of the tune. My reasoning is that it is not likely that Kid Ory or Ray Gilbert had ever seen a muskrat, and it's even less likely that they or anyone else has ever seen a muskrat doing anything that we would be likely to think of as rambling.

SOLUTION: I've decided Muscat Ramble was the original name of the tune. My reasoning is it's not likely that Kid Ory or Ray Gilbert had ever seen a muskrator.

PROBLEM: It was the first time that the Senate Ethics Committee had voted to take action against a senator since 1995, when it recommended that Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican, be expelled on the ground of sexual and official misconduct. Packwood later resigned.

SOLUTION: It was the first time Ethics Committee voted action against a senator since 1995, Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican, be expelled on grounds of sexual misconduct. Packwood later resigned

PROBLEM: And I sympathize with your remark on page 19: Brunner's First Law of Authorship states: "In any given body of text there is at least one error that its writer has read straight past three times."

SOLUTION:
I sympathize with your remark on page 19: "In any given body of text there is at least one error."