From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny   
   McCormack) writes:   
      
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   >>The daughter of Andrew Young, a former Atlanta mayor and prominent civil   
   >>rights figure, has died, her family said on Saturday.   
      
   >This wording is very ambiguous.  Was Lisa a former Atlanta mayor and   
   >prominent civil rights figure or was Andrew?   
      
   >The wording can certainly be taken either way, but the way it is worded, it   
   >should be Lisa, but I suspect the truth is that it is Andrew.   
      
   >Note that in the old days, it would not be so ambiguous, because everybody   
   >understood that women didn't become mayors or PCRFs, so everyone would   
   >understand that those terms had to refer to a man.  Nowadays, however, ...   
      
   "in the old days ... women didn't become ... PCRFs..."   
      
   Claudette Colvin's [a] arrest was back in 1955...   
      
   [a] ntbcw the actress Claudette Colbert...   
      
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