Word: columnist
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...N.A.A.C.P.'s board of directors and its tax- exempt Special Contributions Fund filed a federal lawsuit alleging that chairman of the board William Gibson has ``caused or permitted'' more than $1.4 million of the organization's money to be squandered. Based largely on N.A.A.C.P. financial records leaked to syndicated columnist Carl Rowan, the suit contends that during Gibson's 10 years as chairman, he has run up $500,000 worth of charges on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express Card, while receiving at least $300,000 in reimbursements for the same expenses. ``I've known Gibson to call up and threaten...
...Brock Yates, the curmudgeonly columnist for Car and Driver, questions the demand for this technological gimcrackery by suggesting that consumers can be dumb about smart devices. "For a nation that can't program its vcrs," he says, "I wouldn't want to imagine a future where people will be expected to operate a 4,000-lb. smart car propelling them down the highway at 65 m.p.h." Besides, says Yates, "the auto is the last bastion of personal freedom in the U.S. It promises enormous flexibility. This smacks of Big Brotherism. I don't want 'HAL' inside my dashboard telling...
While reservations are almost always expressed-as they should be-about the introduction of new technologies, only experience can provide the answer. It was just a few years ago, for example, that a columnist described air bags as, essentially, explosives aimed at the driver's face. Yet time has proved that the bags can be lifesavers under some circumstances and are therefore well worth the extra cost. Detroit is betting that smart cars will be similarly judged...
...concert in years, reached for the sword. Most took Croce to task for not seeing the work (though, of course, if she had not made the provocative gesture of writing about a work she refused to see, her piece would have lost some of its eclat). New York Times columnist Frank Rich laid down the lines of the dialogue on the op-ed page. "aids is responsible for yanking death out of the American closet," he wrote. "This is the story of our time. Amazingly, Ms. Croce missed...
Because traditional publishers showed no interest in her report, Bagby sentout press releases, one of which went to MiamiHerald columnist James Russell. After readingRussell's column, a worker from United We Standrelayed a copy of Bagby's report to Perot, shesays...