11.   Amity Shlaes, a Journal editorial page alumna who now writes a column for the Financial Times, attended a rump Republican convention in a seaside New Jersey town.

12.   Among other duties, I write a column.

13.   And you can write your columns and say that I screwed up.

14.   And, in an almost heretical move for a Newsweek editor in chief, he wrote opinion columns himself.

15.   Arianna Huffington has been serving as an adviser to House Speaker Newt Gingrich in Washington, D.C., as well as writing columns and appearing on television talk shows.

16.   As an experiment today, I wrote this column in longhand and depended on a secretary to type it in.

17.   As a rookie sportswriter in North Dakota, I once wrote a column adopting a pro-bird stance.

18.   Around that time, her father, who owned a sports-oriented newspaper, asked her to write a column for young readers.

19.   As it happened, the rate did not change between the time the column was written and the time it appeared.

20.   As I write this column, my computer is being attacked by an army of little Netscape boxes bouncing around the monitor screen.