Word: columnist
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Political gaffes--including the misspelling of the word potato by former vice president Dan Quayle--were the subject of a discussion with Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby yesterday at the Institute of Politics...
Apparently, your columnist views black opinion as nearly monolithic and thinks that because Thomas is black, he must represent the views of liberal civil rights organizations. It is demeaning and condescending to try to lump the diverse members of an entire community into one orthodoxy and deem only one view authentic. No one would suggest that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer must reflect "Jewish views," or that Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy must represent "Irish opinions." Moreover, the Supreme Court is not a representative body; its members are appointed for life so that they...
...Worby all along has had defenders who value what she brings to the state. "Like a bird,'' former Charleston Gazette columnist Don Marsh wrote in 1991, "she is too vivid; her color is too bright." Added a recent Gazette editorial: "In all her plumage, she's a conspicuous member of West Virginia's ornithology ... Undoubtedly, she will continue to draw barrages. But wouldn't it be dull without...
...they maintain the paper would have been in the black by next year. "They wanted to do a ritual slaughter for the amusement of Wall Street. They've done it, and the 80 children of the Chandler family made lots of money," says Jim Dwyer, a New York Newsday columnist who was unsuccessful in negotiating an employee buyout...
...group of leading columnists and reporters may end the two-week strike against both major Detroit newspapers. Sixunionsrepresenting 2,500 workers walked off their jobs at the Gannett-owned Detroit News and Knight-Ridder's Free Press on July 13 over proposed job cuts and pay changes. But the journalists, who include sportswriter Mitch Albom, film critic Susan Stark, and veteran auto writer Doron Levin, tell TIME Daily that they have run out of patience with what they say is mostly aTeamsterissue (which the publishers characterize as "featherbedding"), one that is hurting their papers financially as the strike continues. Says...