She is a granddaughter of the late Kenneth Gale Crawford, Newsweek's Washington columnist from 1961 to 1970.

The cause was complications of diabetes, said his wife, the Washington columnist Marianne Means.

"The urgent necessity," a respected Washington columnist wrote the other day, "is to make a decision-whether or not it is right."

The primary ballot lists the candidates as follows: * Patrick J. Buchanan, a Washington columnist and commentator.

So the choice we have is between a Republican governor of the New South, a Washington senator and a Washington columnist.

Possessing a large degree of what the Washington columnist and talk-television star Michael Kinsley has called "intellectual, uh, flexibility" is no sin here.

Ms. Means, 64, has been the syndicated Washington columnist for Hearst Newspapers since 1967.

A Washington Monthly columnist described the piece as "mirror[ing] the Republican line with minimal variation".

He is currently a Washington columnist for The Dallas Morning News, where he was Washington bureau chief from 1981 through 2008.

He was the younger brother of the Washington political columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop.