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Friday, May 16, 2008 12:00 AM

What's so bad about "sweetie," anyway?

Why we should care about Barack Obama's preferred term of endearment.
Rebecca Traister

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  • Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:27 AM

    Career Boost for Mediocre Agar

    Obama just gave Peggy Agar, a reporter in not quite top-trier market, a huge career boost way out of proportion to her not-very-imaginative question. Before being called "sweetie", who'd ever heard of her? She'd been doing stories on middle schools.

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