Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inspired by columnist Cohen and Governor Allen, I come forward in a spirit of public service and self-loathing to admit my own sad story. I was a Minesweeper addict...
...COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, COLUMNIST RICHARD COHEN of the Washington Post publicly confessed his addiction to Solitaire, the computer version of the onanistic card game. Free with every copy of Windows, it has enslaved a goodly portion of the American population. Cohen's admission may have lacked the wattage of Oprah's confession to past cocaine abuse but not the poignancy: responsible, respected writer shamefully neglects most everything-family, work, leisure-in endless pursuit of the perfectly useless perfect hand. Heartbreaking...
Finally there is the Gibson legacy. The N.A.A.C.P. has been rocked by a series of allegations by syndicated columnist Carl Rowan about the uncontrolled spending of organizational funds by Gibson and his cronies on the 64-member board of directors. According to several board members, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, which is conducting an audit of N.A.A.C.P. officials, is examining records that show that Gibson ran up more than $1 million on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express card over the past nine years. Among Gibson's expenses: several plane tickets for Marva Smith, a South Carolina woman known inside...
...books. The scrawny 25-year-old arrived in New York City on Sept. 1, 1992, on an Iraqi passport, having moved through Jordan and Pakistan before landing at J.F.K. airport. According to Two Seconds Under the World, an account of the Trade Center bombing authored by New York Newsday columnist Jim Dwyer, Yousef said he had been tortured by the Iraqi military and successfully applied for political asylum...
Would any responsible publication allow a columnist to print "...that gay people have bastardized everything they have come in contact with...