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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (162606)	5/19/2005 6:22:35 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A and B evaluates to True if both A and B are true and evaluates to false otherwise. You may double check this at any logic book you like.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (162606)	5/21/2005 10:46:29 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "We are retracting A AND B means that we retract A AND we retract B. Are you having trouble with English as well as logic?" There are two interpretations of this use of "AND". A legal opinion would depend on whose ox was gored. But the Newsweek retraction had no "AND" in it: Newsweek withdraws Koran report ... In a one-sentence statement released on Monday evening, Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker said: "Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantanamo Bay." ... news.bbc.co.uk In other words, Newsweek did not make a statement one way or the other about any Koran flushing. Their retraction was about the result of an internal military investigation. But I'd say that's good enough. From what I've read, the prisoners at Guantanamo had a hunger strike when Korans were not treated with proper respect by their being placed in piles on the floor. From this, my guess is that the story that a Koran was flushed down a toilet is likely an exaggeration, but it also could very well be true. Newsweek's retraction did not cover the question of whether or not a Koran was flushed, just whether or not an internal military investigation stated that one was. -- Carl