✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
A gift, we are told, and also a victory in litigation — which raises the question of who sues over a present. The construction adjectives are doing heavy lifting here: the workers are happy, the complex is the finest, and the superlative is guaranteed into eternity, none of which is a thing a person can know about a building site. And note the accounting, in which a dollar figure attached to a ballroom becomes a donation to a nation of 340 million people who did not order a ballroom. The signature at the bottom is the tell: nobody signs a press release twice unless he suspects the first name did not land.