Merriam Webster reviews offensive word definitions for first time
The 150 year old publisher forms a task force to reconsider listing practice for slurs including nigger and redskin while vowing not to remove offensive terms. Debates center on whether to alter how entries present historical usage amid protests and a potential boycott led by NAACP and critics.
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Redneck
Deborah Burns
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Houghton Mifflin
American Heritage Dictionary
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NAACP
Kweisi Mfume
Junk email software may be on way
Sendmail Inc. plans free junk email blocking software over the Internet. The system aims to thwart spoofed addresses used by spammers, reducing spam that accounts for about 10 percent of global email. Users praise the tool’s efficiency while advertisers stress recipient control. Randall Winchester of the University of Maryland says the software deflects thousands of messages hourly and is easier to manage than existing tools.
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Sendmail Inc
Ives
Sanford Wallace
Cyber Promotions Inc
Randall Winchester
Come Systems
Varsity of Maryland At
College Park
Allman
Teens face life terms in park attack that killed boy
In Flint, a trash-strewn park case ends with Tyrone Reyes, 17, and Terrance Reyes, 19, charged in a fatal assault that left a boy dead and a girl sexually assaulted amid a city degraded by the auto era decline.
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Terrance Reyes
Flint
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