Word: hyphen
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...more choices. 1) Keep the last name they were given at birth. 2) Take the husband's last name. 3) Use three names, as in Hillary Rodham Clinton; or, as women did in the '70s, join the wife's birth name and the husband's birth name with a hyphen -- a practice that in the third generation down the road would produce geometrically expanded multiple-hyphenated nightmares. 4) Use the unmarried name in most matters professional, and use the husband's name in at least some matters personal and domestic. Most men, if they were to wake up one morning...
Gates' brand of scholarship--which he describes in his new book, Loose Canons, as exploring the hyphen in African-American--rejects the more Afrocentric approaches of Jeffries and some other prominent Black scholars...
...America. This book doesn't provide all the right answers, but it raises all the right questions. And in the end, Gates' is a moderate voice, and one that must be heard by both right and left. As he says, the goal has to be exploration of "the hyphen in African-American," not simply one side or the other...
Judaism is different from Christianity, and a hyphen does not make that difference vanish. No one unschooled in Jewish tradition--not Judeo-Christian tradition--can be an authority on Jewish law. I have a guess as to how many years Webb and DeGiorgio have studied Jewish law, but it is in round numbers. Very round...
Legislators in Prague took a historic vote last week: by a landslide, they renamed their country the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, removing a hyphen they had inserted only four weeks earlier. The new monumental mouthful was a concession to the country's 5 million Slovaks, who have resented the dominance of the 10 million Czechs ever since the country was formed in 1918 from the Austro-Hungarian empire's two western Slavonic provinces...