He has also written a number of conservative columns against policies like Obamacare and the lifting of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays for publications like the National Review Online, American Spectator and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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She was able to quantify her following by the number of newspapers who bought her columns -- and by how many readers spent money on a stamp to mail her a letter.

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An inordinate number of these career shifts end up being reported in gossip columns, because they are fed by the publicists of celebrities enraged by an unflattering item or because those former staffers are now themselves writing for the gossip pages.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Staff at Mayflower Marina in Devonport battled for a number of hours to upturn part of a wooden pontoon which had become trapped on sunken columns that anchor it after having been twisted by the wind and waves.

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At the same time she, and the police, prepared for trouble by a number of ingenious administrative changes allowing the country's different police forces to concentrate large and mobile columns wherever needed.

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