European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                M s i is  a fiction 1 the Kitchen gods wife by Amy Tan last week 3 weeks on list 2 2 heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn last week 1 weeks on list 7 a 3 the firm by John Grisham last week 2 weeks on list 17 4 loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark last week 4 weeks on list 9 _. 5 As the Crow flies by Jeffrey Archer last week 7 weeks on list 9 6 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 5 weeks on list 67 a. 7 the rustlers of the West Fork by Louis la amour last week 6 weeks on list 3 8 beast by Peter Benchley last week 13 weeks on list 2 9 Paradise by Judith Mcnaught last week 12 weeks on list 2 10 vortex by Larry Bond last week 8, weeks on list 4 non fiction 1 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 2 weeks on list .33 a it 2 the commanders by Bob Woodward last week 1 weeks on list 8 3 silent coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin last week 6 weeks on list 5 4 chutzpah by Alan m. Dershowitz last week 4 weeks on list 3 5 parliament of whores by . O Rourke last week 13 weeks on list 3 6 a question of character by Thomas c. Reeves first week on list 7 Dave Barry talks rack by Dave Barry last week 12 weeks on list 2. 8 fire in the belly by Sam keen last week 8 weeks on list 8 9 counsel to the president by Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrook last week 3 weeks on list 5 10 tour ours Provence by Peter Mayle first week on list paperback fiction 1 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow weeks on list 7 a 2 the voice of the night by Dean r. Koontz weeks on list 2 3 september by Rosamunde Pilcher weeks on list 2 4 dragon by Clive Cussler weeks on list 3 5 secrets of the morning by . Andrews weeks on list 7 a 6 breath of scandal by Sandra Brown weeks on list 2 7 second child by John Saul weeks on list 3 8 Mountain Laurel by Jude Deveraux weeks on list 2 9 the Golden Orange by Joseph Wambaugh weeks on list 5 10 red dragon by Thomas Harris weeks on list 17 paperback non fiction 1 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 7 2 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks on list 2 3 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 85 4 Dave Barry turns 40 by Dave Barry weeks on list 2 5 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 16 Quot 6 men at work by George f. Will weeks on list 11 7 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 400 8 composing a life by Mary Catherine Bateson weeks on list 6. 9 by Way of deception by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy weeks on list 6 10 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 40 paperback miscellaneous 1 the to Factor Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle and Martin Natahn weeks on list 49 2 the to Factor diet by Martin Natahn weeks on list 11 3 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 29 4 the revenge of the baby sat by Bill Watterson weeks on list 16 5 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas by Rand Mcnally weeks on list 6 compiled by the new York time stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 the Sheress of Kell by David Eddings 2 heartbeat by Danielle steel 3 the firm by John Grisham 4 loves music loves to dance by Mary Higgins Clark 5 extreme measures by Michael Palmer 6 Thunder of Erebus by Payne Harrison 7 As the Crow flies by Jeffrey Archer 8 damage by Josephine Hart 9 the novel by James Michener 10 crossfire by David Hagberg non fiction 1 the commanders by Bob Woodward 2 Nancy Reagan the unauthorized biography by Kitty Kelley 3 you la never eat lunch in this town again by Julia Phillips 4 Dave Barry talks Back by Dave Barry 5 and the sea we Tell by Vincent Bugliosi 6 the promised land by Nicholas Lemann 7 my favorite summer 1956 by Mickey Mantle 8 first air by Michael Skinner 9 the prize by Daniel Yergin 10 sleepwalking through history by Hayes Johnson i 111 i l l k s a objectively these pronouns sound amateurish James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate Quot Thomas Carlyle Long ago described economies As a the dismal science Quot thus coining a line phrase that might have been directed As tellingly at grammar. Only a grammarian it is said can love Grah Imar. Too bad. Today a topic is grammar and 1 beg you to steel yourself for the horrible examples yet to come. The associated press last year reported on the return of to Jackson to pro football. The news was Good a coach Art Shell found a Way in boys first week to give both he and Marcus Allen enough playing  ouch. Iri South Carolina the Greenville news interviewed a state legislator who had accepted hospitality from a lobbying group a the said he was invited by the trial lawyers association which bought the $198 round trip plane ticket for he and his  gracious had enough in each instance the writer was thrown by a double object. The Best Way to avoid such blunders is to put a thumb Over the second object. On you real ignoramus would find a Way to give he playing time. No one would buy a round trip ticket for he. Would we say that the announcement a was made by he presumably not. We would not write of the outfielder that the japanese team flew he to Hawaii. Yucca cd when god was creating the English language god made the nominative Case and god made the objective Case. God knew what he was doing. Let us live godly lives. On to another gritting of the Teeth. This comes from a column on tax advice in the Florence . Morning news last september a a child cannot claim themselves As a personal exemption if the Parent claimed the child As a  All Clear the same writer in the same column let readers know that under rare circumstances a the Cost of lottery tickets Are a  this is from a Slick folder describing the . Naval memorial in Washington . The memorial includes a statue of a Sailor. A the sculptor has managed to create a Universal figure that reminds almost everyone of the self or of a former shipmate a in both instances the gun shy writers flinched from a charge of sexism. The tax expert could not make his fingers Type a sentence saying that a child May not claim a a himself As a dependent. The flier writer fled from a statue that reminds everyone of  in these constructions the reflexive pronoun is gender neuter. I say to cowardly Fellows be Brave risk the contumely of feminists write by rules of English construction that have been around since the Days of King Arthur july 7, 1991 sunday a Page 9