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...long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news. It was too sexual, too nasty to invoke outside gangsta rap and the barracks. "Remember," says language expert and New York Times columnist William Safire, "it's so offensive that Barbara Bush didn't use it but said that what Geraldine Ferraro was 'rhymes with rich.' " Defined by Webster as "the female of the dog, a lewd or immoral woman," it is uttered -- but usually only in private -- about such strong women...
...character she played on Designing Women. Suzanne has come to Washington to take over the congressional seat of her late husband. The show aims to update Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the heroine is a naive ex-beauty queen from Georgia who doesn't know the difference between columnist William Safire and Sapphire, her maid, yet in her plainspoken way possesses more wisdom than the capital's sophisticates...
Patrick S. Chung is a columnist for The Crimson...
...these genetic problems would disappear if Americans could somehow be persuaded to abandon purebreds in favor of mutts. While individual mixed-breed dogs have problems, the animals on average are a lot healthier than their high-class cousins. "Mutts are the Hondas of the dog world," says syndicated animal columnist Mike Capuzzo of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "They're cheap, reliable and what nature intended in the first place. They are what you would get at a canine Club Med if you left them alone for six years." There are "breeds" in the mutt world, just as there are among purebreds...
...identify Les Aspin in 1974 as someone who might go far. Back then he was simply a two-term Congressman with an interest in military affairs, yet he rose all the way to Secretary of Defense. How well did that turn out? Clinton, Rather, Biden, Senator Sam Nunn, columnist George Will, California Governor and possible Republican presidential nominee Pete Wilson, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Citibank CEO John Reed -- all were on the lists of potential leaders, and all could be said to have realized their potential. Even so, the leadership vacuum remains. We have the leaders we wanted. Now what...