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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (36876)	8/10/2002 4:15:49 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

He urges the crab cakes on me while choosing for himself, "in the spirit of inquiry", grilled mahi-mahi - a kind of dolphin - in a coconut, lime and lychee sauce. Mahi-mahi, aka bull dolphin, is no kind of dolphin at all. Dolphins are mammals, mahi-mahi are fish. Things like that irk me because they make me wonder what other mistakes were made that I can't pick out so easily.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (36876)	8/10/2002 6:39:06 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Bernard Lewis, at 86, never expected the Fame he has achieved, I am sure. Some comments of his I liked. ...He asks if Lewis thinks Arafat can really change his stripes. "Asking Arafat to give up terrorism is like asking Tiger Woods to give up golf," Lewis replies, prompting a roar of laughter from Friedman. ..."Imagine," says Lewis, "if the Ku Klux Klan or Aryan Nation obtained total control of Texas and had at its disposal all the oil revenues, and used this money to establish a network of well-endowed schools and colleges all over Christendom peddling their particular brand of Christianity. This is what the Saudis have done with Wahhabism. The oil money has enabled them to spread this fanatical, destructive form of Islam all over the Muslim world and among Muslims in the west. Without oil and the creation of the Saudi kingdom, Wahhabism would have remained a lunatic fringe in a marginal country." ...."Obviously, if Saddam is toppled tomorrow, he's not going to be replaced by a Scandinavian-style democracy," he says. "But of all the oil-producing countries, pre-Saddam Iraq made the best use of its oil revenues. It built a fine infrastructure, an excellent educational system. And I do believe that among the other Iraqi people there are those who are willing and able to initiate the development of democratic institutions."