Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: To err is human; to learn from one's mistakes is divineMay 16, 2021 5:30 am - No one is perfect. I certainly am not. Nobody who works here is. But, boy, do we try to come close every day and try to learn from our mistakes. Some days are better tha...
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Grammar Moses: A column cut from whole fustianMay 09, 2021 1:00 am - I love to learn new words. Or, as is often the case, relearn words I'd looked up before and forgotten. I swear my vocabulary stopped growing organically about 35 years a...
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Policy Corner: When does race matter in a story?May 03, 2021 1:00 am - I hear from readers occasionally with questions framed as "Why did you make that story about race?" or "What does it matter what race he or she is?" Recent examples have...
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Grammar Moses: Five-letter words that start with FMay 02, 2021 5:30 am - Shame on those of you who thought with a headline like that I was going to break the Numero Uno rule at this newspaper and use the dreaded four-letter F-word. Which, of ...
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Grammar Moses: That's all I have to say about 'that'Apr 25, 2021 5:30 am - A co-worker who fancies himself a gastronome posted a photo and description of his dinner the other night on Facebook. The heart of his meal was a "rib-eye marinaded ove...
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Grammar Moses: Is it that that that was one too many?Apr 17, 2021 1:00 am - There you have me repeating myself again. Readers Mike and Gayle Politowicz feel (that) I am a serial abuser of "that." That is to say the word "that," not this or that....
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Grammar Moses: Lest we forget, there is a nuance to using 'recall'Apr 10, 2021 1:00 am - "I don't remember. I don't recall. I've got no memory of anything at all." When in doubt, employ a Peter Gabriel lyric, I always say. Remembering. Recalling. Synonyms, r...
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'All the men and women merely players': Why 'actress' isn't being used anymoreApr 08, 2021 1:00 am - Reader Bill Thomas served me up a softball question for last Sunday's column before getting to the meat of his email. At the risk of his hogging my attention, it's a top...
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Behind the Curtain: How the Daily Herald covers courthouse newsApr 05, 2021 5:00 am - Newspapers as a matter of course cover the courts, both criminal and civil. But we tend to handle them in different ways. Felony criminal charges are derived from a coll...
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Good News Sunday: College kid dominates in Final Four, turns pro ... in tubaApr 04, 2021 5:30 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published by the Daily Herald during the previous week: It's that time of year w...