It's too bad when sensitivities effectively ban the use of certain words. This year's top victim is surely "refugee".
The Associated Press has a good article by Jocelyn Noveck about the recent commotion regarding the use of "refugee" to describe New Orleans residents left homeless by Katrina. I've got to agree with William Safire on this one: how does this word imply race at all?
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