I always wondered why people whose job descriptions entailed overseeing somewhat impossible projects came to be called "czars" (or "tsars"). Johnson, the language blog at The Economist, considers the issue, and proposes an alternative.
Over at The New York Times, science writer Natalie Angier offers these thoughts on why not ma'am.
Monday, August 30, 2010
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