AUSTIN, Texas -- We could be watching one of those rare etymological events
("etymology": the history of a particular word, the study of historical
linguistic change), as the meaning of a word changes before our eyes. Sort
of like watching...
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06 April 2000
Oh Elian, we love you! We're the News Media. And you're incredibly special.
Many politicians, legal experts, psychologists, celebrities and pundits have wanted the world to know that they fervently desire what's best for you. We've...
04 April 2000
LOS ANGELES -- There's a certain kind of anti-California prejudice that has
always chapped my rear: "home of the fruits and nuts," "Berserkeley," "San
Francisco Democrats." As though Alabama weren't a trifle strange and Utah
didn't have...
30 March 2000
Nearly five years after its purchase of ABC, the Disney Company made
history in late March by subjecting a confused 6-year-old boy to a
preposterous "interview." For ABC News superstar Diane Sawyer, it was all
in a day's work. But former...
29 March 2000
"Judge Hiller assigns Lindsay the repugnant task of defending nun-killer
Michael Kingston. Lindsay discovers the police search that found the body
was unconstitutional, and against all her morals, moves that Kingston be
released. Helen...
28 March 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Those of you old enough to remember the Vietnam War will
recall the early years, when the majority of Americans couldn't find the
place on a map and practically nobody could tell the difference between the
Viet Cong and...