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There is--or was--a US newspaper called The Afro-American , and there is a popular magazine called Ebony . As Mr. Livingston points out, African-American is--or can be--ambiguous and is a poor choice solely on that ground.
The New York Times ' "Tardy Shoppers" article, which I read for what it was--a consumer report--was a much-needed reality check.
Eleanor could have been--at times was--a dangerous mix of patrician self-importance, self-delusion, and imperiousness.
The man who had been the charismatically firm "superego" of the school (as he called himself) during its early years could be--and often was--a brutal id by the end.
A WP front-pager by media reporter Howard Kurtz suggests that the story of the woman who died shortly after being told that her insurance company would only cover a bone marrow transplant if she had it in Chicago and not in Hawaii where she was--a managed-care horror story that has been referred to by both Bill and Hillary Clinton in recent weeks and has also been quoted by major media from ABC to Time--is of a piece with Ronald Reagan's Cadillac-driving "welfare queen."