Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Minitru on the Hudson

Looks like the New York Times has had a wee adjustment to its style guide:

"There's a certain ferocity in motherhood," said Celeste Zappala of Philadelphia, a co-founder of Ms. Sheehan's antiwar group, Gold Star Families for Peace, and the mother of Sgt. Sherwood Baker, a national guardsman. Sergeant Baker was killed in Baghdad in April 2004 while protecting the Iraq Survey Group, which was searching for large unconventional weapons.

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Ms. Prewitt said she voted for Mr. Bush in 2000 and initially supported the war, but turned against it after no unconventional weapons were found. "The first year I was rather numb, and then I got angry," she said.


"Unconventional weapons?" Admittedly, it's a better term, but it also serves to help us forget what this war was all about in the first place...

...UPDATE: I just did a Nexis search and they've apparently been using both terms for quite some time. It's interesting really - sometimes it's an appropriate usage and sometimes it isn't. strange.