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explained this and other changes to the magazine: "It is mine now. I'm in charge. We're going to be doing some significant redesign work, and have a newish magazine by the end of January. The big thing is, I want to create a kind of new identity for the front-of-the-book section. That doesn't mean
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column in 1979. starting it with the greeting: "How do you do. This is a new column about language." In more than 30 years, he contributed more than 1300 installments to the column.
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was one of the most frequent contributors from the inception of the column until Safire's death in 2009. He wrote the inaugural
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that everything's being tossed out. We're looking at everything and evaluating what sort of fits."
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About the cancellation of the column, the incoming editor of
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Julie Ruin

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