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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (7037)	3/1/2001 2:59:29 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You would never "wrong" me, "Solon." Look how funny those quotes make it. This reminds me. Once my husband and I were in a diner and saw a sign over the counter that read "HAPPY" "BIRTHDAY" "EDNA" He pointed out to my amusement that the sentiment expressed was that the writer wished an unhappy celebration of what was patently not that person's birthday at all; nor was, in fact, that person "Edna"; there was an impostor involved.

To: Solon who wrote (7037)	3/1/2001 6:06:34 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Hi, Solon. Did you see this news? Taliban Says Destruction of Statues Has Begun By Molly Moore Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, March 1, 2001; 4:46 PM ISTANBUL, March 1 — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban Islamic militia said today that its troops had begun destroying all statues in the country—including the world’s two tallest standing Buddhas, hewn from a rock cliff 1600 years ago. Carrying out an edict that stunned the world of archeology and cultural preservation and unleashed a global outpouring of protest after it was issued on Monday, the radical Islamic group said tanks, rocket launchers and “any means available” would be employed to demolish the statues, which were deemed to violate the tenets of Islam. Some have stood sentry over history stretching from the conquests of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan to the Great Games of the British and Russian empires and the intrigues of the Cold War. <snip> “We do not understand why everybody is so worried,” the Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar said through the official Taliban news agency, brushing off worldwide appeals to abandon the order he issued Monday. “All we are breaking are stones.” <snip> washingtonpost.com