A few links to my most recent columns in the Boston Globe:
What's Missing from Your Dictionary?
Pun Times (review)
When Real Events Overtake Metaphors
How To Read A Word (review)
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Erin McKean's Other Blog 
German Please:)
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Just want to say; you are my new hero
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Please re-broadcast the word (new to me) “BANKSTERS” meaning international global bankers who are stripping the wealth of nations. It may also refer to economists participating in quasi-legal activity of criminal intent.
Rhymes with ‘mobsters’ for reasons that should be obvious in context.
This caught my imagination today, from the words of the Keiser Report @RT (Russian Times, English edition). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v-PtIDKtaTz3M
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