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Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:00 AM

A "mistress" by any other name

Can't we find a better word to refer to Maria Belen Chapur?
Mary Elizabeth Williams

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  • Wednesday, July 1, 2009 02:56 PM

    What DO we call Mark Sanford?

    > try referring to Maria Belen Chapur, as we do Mark Sanford, simply by her name.

    Actually, we call him "that cheating moron" down here in the Carolinas. Fortuantely, it's a gender-neutral term.

    —Elizabeth L. Read Elizabeth L.'s other letters

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