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To: tekboy who wrote (35517)	8/1/2002 12:08:26 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Elsewhere on the fraternity front, Harper's index had this curious list of FA related items leading off the list, in the broader and narrower sense. July 2002 Chance an American believes it is very likely that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will lead to World War III : 1 in 5 Chance an American believes that peace in the Middle East will require a military victory : 1 in 2 Military budget of Israel in 1967 expressed as a percentage of the budgets of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria combined : 58 Israeli military budget today expressed in these terms : 187 Number of references to Israeli "retaliation" on U.S. network nightly newscasts between September 2000 and March 2002 : 118 Number of references to Palestinian "retaliation" : 14 Number of hours Israeli soldiers in Ramallah broadcast pornography on seven Palestinian television stations in March : 48 Number of years that a member of the Council on Foreign Relations has authored Parade magazine's celebrity-gossip column : 11 harpers.org Could you make Walter Scott an honorary member posthumously? A little really old blood to balance the new?