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DIED. JACK ANDERSON, 83, Pulitzer prizewinning journalist whose muckraking columns terrified Beltway politicians for more than a half-century; in Bethesda, Md. A devout Mormon who viewed his work as a calling, Anderson often enraged his powerful subjects with his syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, which broke stories like the Reagan Administration's arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and the secret transcripts of the Watergate grand jury. Richard Nixon put Anderson on his "enemies" list, prompting Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy to devise a plan to murder him. Still, when Anderson's work on Watergate resulted in arrests...
...fearsome march across Georgia and the Carolinas. As Sherman's men humble the Confederate countryside, hundreds of runaway slaves follow along. The author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate returns to the vexed territory of the past and comes back with a novel in which Sherman's advancing column and the thousands of lives caught up in it become the force of history itself...
...Nikki moves on to executive status at The Crimson, 2006 will usher in a brand new column, and so it’s time to wrap things up. It’s not quite reading period yet, but here’s a refresher course in the most essential subjects I’ve addressed since starting the column this spring. Think of it as SparkNotes for your Harvard troubles...
...terribly recent when compared with ‘plow,’ which after 300 years in noun-land seems to have made the jump some time the mid 15th century.The interesting question to consider, and where the moral of this story lies (for anyone worth his salt at columning must always be working towards a moral) is why this is so. Why is it that so many of the verbs we use which come from nouns have to do with technology? There are exceptions of course—‘clowning’ came from...
...Defense Department were to reinstate the draft, it would have 8.5 million records of would-be soldiers at its fingertips—with birth dates, skill sets and contact information,” Melody Joy Kramer wrote in a column in The Daily Pennsylvanian last month...