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Friday, November 5, 1999 12:00 AM

"None of us are hip"

New York Times language czar -- or is that "tsar"? -- Allan Siegal talks about the paper's "Manual of Style and Usage," editing under combat conditions and the importance of being stodgy.
By Susan Lehman

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