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OP-ED: Can a lady use the f-word?

I asked my dear friend Mimi whether a lady can ever use the F-word. Mimi is a product of old guard propriety, which to me, makes her an impeccable source on these matters. MimiëƵs answer was short: ëƵNo.ëƵBut she wanted to elaborate. ëƵWell,ëƵ she added, ëƵIëƵve just started using the ...

OP-ED: The arc of the moral universe just wobbles around

No one knows whether the recent uprising means the end of President Vladimir PutinëƵs control of Russia, just as no one knew before the last few weeks of 1999 that Putin would replace Boris Yeltsin and become RussiaëƵs leader for the next quarter-century.But everyone knows that the widely ...

What’s in a gate?

Watergate.IsnëƵt that a funny word?How did a word, derived from a 1970s political scandal, which had only been the name of a place in Washington, D.C., become so integrally woven into the fabric of the American lexicon? (ADMISSION: Midway through that sentence, I had no idea how it would ...