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Euphemistically speaking

The impulse to find more refined ways to talking about unpleasant truths is a constant of the human experience; what changes over time are the topics deemed to need sugarcoating.
Do you know who Captain Queeg, Howard Beale, and Chauncey Gardner are?

Today's TV talkers seem addicted to making cultural references that mean nothing to younger audiences.
Letters to the Editor

Readers write about healthcare, Japanese-American citizens, indelible body art, concrete, and better teaching methods.
Tattoos: indelibly passé

Getting body art is a profoundly conservative act.
Don't put public figures on the couch

Americans should focus on the candidates' performance – not their psyche.

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Mae Azango has gone undercover to report on female circumcision, a rite of the Sande society in Liberia that is performed on young girls.

Mae Azango exposed a secret ritual in Liberia, putting her life in danger

When journalist Mae Azango wrote about a secret women's circumcision ritual in Liberia, she received death threats.