Cliché Corner   

"Recently, the committee approved $23 million to fund a new domestic counterterrorism czar who would report directly to the attorney general."
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Advocate

"[Gary] Speckman's earnings vary according to the time put in each year, but he made $1,500 during the 1999 growing season as Green County's part-time weed czar, ferreting out patches of thistles.... "
Madison, Wisconsin, Capital Times

"Local boxing czars, like so many others across the country, will read a story on one of their promotions and look past all the raves and honest adjectives to find one negative line...."
San Antonio Express-News

"Because U.S. Postal Service stamp czar Azeely Jaffer continues to approve of the obscene number of new postage stamps issued annually, many commemoratives are seldom used on mail."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"But if you think so, you don't know guano, according to the city's bacteria czar. "
St. Petersburg Times

"Santa Monica-based Business.com is the brainchild of former Walt Disney Co. Internet czar Jake Winebaum."
Los Angeles Times

" Soap opera czar Aaron Spelling and his cast weren't sure if the scribes were laughing in the right places."
Tampa Tribune

"Whatever happened at the Beijing publisher--its chief editor insisted in an interview today that the decision not to go ahead was routine business--there had been earlier signs that China's culture czars were frowning."
New York Times

from more than 860 references in June and July, some of which pertained to actual czars or drug czar Barry McCaffrey