To the Editor:
People and opinion pages should be called whatever they want to be called, but your decision to rename Op-Eds the pedestrian âguest essaysâ seems wrongheaded. It is an argument against etymology.
So what if Op-Ed is a relic of a fading print presence? Words and phrases often betray their origins: Someone on an even keel is not necessarily on a boat. A person can be sinister and not left-handed.
Of course, Iâll continue to avidly consume your guest essays, but Iâll miss the term Op-Ed.
Jack Sherman
To the Editor:
I understand your wish to retire the term Op-Ed and replace it with something more in tune with how articles in todayâs Times are published. But the term âguest essayâ doesnât sing. I wish you had instead chosen âguest opinion,â which rolls off the tongue more easily. It also invites shortening to âguest-op,â which would have appealed to us nostalgics who will miss the old name.
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COVID changed everything for Georgia group helping migrants
NICK WOOTEN, The Ledger-Enquirer
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COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) Rita Ellis got the call around 1:30 on a recent afternoon.
Four men were being released from the Stewart Detention Center and were due to arrive in Columbus in less than an hour. The call was expected but came earlier than usual. A mass text went out, and the organizing and scrambling began.
Ellis and five other volunteers loaded their cars with newly-stocked supply backpacks and laptops to buy tickets for the men’s next stop. One helper stopped at a Burger King just down the road to pick up chicken sandwiches. Still warm in the foil, the released men would soon sit outside on benches and eat, talking between bites. It wouldn’t be long before the Groome shuttle station filled with the sounds of their hurried conversations.