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To: JohnM who wrote (27949)	5/1/2002 11:59:11 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

REASON: Daily Brickbat Absurd news bites, served fresh every day. By Charles Oliver Sky Terror (5/2/02) Jerry Stevens wanted to use his skywriting skills to inspire people. So he took to the skies over Palm Beach County, Florida, and wrote "God is Great," reported the Palm Beach Post. The message prompted numerous phone calls to police and local media. Law enforcement had to assure callers that skywriting is not a form of terrorism.

To: JohnM who wrote (27949)	5/2/2002 1:10:55 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

I found it very interesting the way both interviewer and interviewee stepped around the lines demarcating those things that Sari Nusseibeh is not allowed to say...

To: JohnM who wrote (27949)	5/2/2002 9:42:51 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I've read it and, though I thought it was a good piece of journalism, was not particularly impressed because it offered no thoughts as to solutions. Much too bland and detached. The subject calls for more. So what if there exists an ineffective aristocratic Christ Church educated avuncular Palestinian scholar interested in medieval Islamic history married to an English scholar's daughter who hems and haws about suicide bombings and gets death threats for his criticism of Arafat? The man was ineffective before the second intifada and he is doubly so now. Arafat is using him as his moderate foil in Jerusalem. The rest of the article was in the same vein--it did not scratch beneath the surface. Yeah, I don't need to be told that both sides are angry at each other. Though it was a good read, it was not valuable to me. Was not thought-provoking, though it did make me feel a kind of fuzzy "Oh, dear, what a shame" emotion which is utterly invaluable. I think the title of the article was filched from Fallaci's far superior, much more opinionated, article in Correre de la Serra, Rage and Pride. Now that's journalism! Perhaps not your taste but it certainly is mine. Can't wait for another real journalist, Ryzard Kapuscinksi, to get his arms around the subject. All simply my opinion, of course.