Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.