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Sometimes headlines are abbreviated for the sake of space.
Mary Anne — (archived)

The abbreviations can be grammatically incorrect. The object is to communicate a thought, not to score in the 99th percentile of the SATs.

Sometimes typesetters screw up and put in extra things or omit things intended to be there.

Reporters and columnists don't write headlines. That's someone else's job. You'll notice this if you look for syndicated columns in a variety of newspapers.

I have seen examples of both abbreviation and screw-ups in newspapers since I was a child, when Bob Denver was playing a beatnik on TV. There was no LL Cool J back then. It was all "Cool, daddio".

Perhaps the headline is a pop reference. Perhaps it's just more of the same as before, and before that.

You reached the conclusion you reached because you were already poised to jump to it.

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