21.   A newspaper columnist in Atlanta compared him with a notorious serial killer, Wayne Williams.

22.   A Lexington newspaper columnist suggested that Smith should not take the job, that the region was not ready.

23.   A newspaper columnist who wants lots of letters, e-mails and phone calls can get them easily enough.

24.   A newspaper columnist?

25.   A popular satirist, Ibrahim Nabavi, and a newspaper columnist, Mohammad Qoochani, were interrogated by a hardline court and detained.

26.   A newspaper column about newspaper columnists is not simply a self-referential exercise.

27.   Buchanan, better known recently as a newspaper columnist and TV pundit, used to write speeches for Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

28.   But comedians, and certain, um, newspaper columnists, know instinctively that the humor comes from linking the voting problem to older voters.

29.   But Buchanan, who honed his sound bites as a newspaper columnist and TV talkmeister, likes to twist the knife before thrusting it home.

30.   But Ameena Shafiq, a newspaper columnist, said the ruling highlights the difficulties that the government will face in its efforts to eradicate the practice.