Word: columnistic
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DIED. CARL ROWAN, 75, crusading newsman, syndicated columnist and commentator once dubbed "the most visible black journalist in the country"; in Washington. He rose from poverty in Tennessee to become a penetrating reporter, focusing predominantly on issues of race relations. His forays into the public sector included stints as State Department spokesman under John Kennedy and as a delegate...
...addition, his faith could still come back to haunt him in the more conservative areas of the country. Over the summer, in the heat of the veepstakes, Boston Globe political columnist David Nyhan came to speak at the Institute of Politics. He appraised the chances of each contender on the Democratic side and chose Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry as the most likely vice presidential pick. Nyhan said that Lieberman would not be picked because the nation's heartland was not yet ready for an Orthodox Jew on the ticket...
Katha Pollitt is an author and a columnist for the Nation
...seriously ask the question in a Liz Smith review--is it any of our business? Gay activists have criticized the columnist (whom they long maintained was gay) for helping celebrities keep closeted by passing on their stories of heterosexual relationships, implying that homosexuality is the one secret too filthy for even a gossip to reveal. Smith says that she has always opposed outing--she once helped Rock Hudson "counter-blackmail" a woman who threatened to expose him--and that she doesn't like to define herself in terms of her love life. So why write about her two marriages...
...Those prone to smelling rodents in the Clinton White House, such as The Nation's left-wing columnist Alexander Cockburn, point out that the presale assessment of the Elk Hills land was done not by the Department of Energy, as would usually be the case, but by a private firm, ICF Kaiser. And then, with a note of "gotcha," Cockburn throws in the fact that ICF Kaiser's chairman is former Gore campaign manager Tony Coelho...