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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (64283)	5/26/2005 4:15:41 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 74559

Gib, Re: "Helengrad" I think the term comes from a magazine article "The Seige of Helengrad" and of course the writer is making what he thinks is a joke about her supposed left wing positions. The comparison he is trying to make is with the Bolshevik renaming of Russian towns after the revolution. Stalingrad was Tsaritsyn before 1925 and Lenningrad was St. Petersburg and now called Petrograd I think. Calling Helen Clark "Helengrad" would imply that she has Bolshevik leanings. This is a little bit like the French Jacobins with the new 10-month calendar they adopted after the revolution. But maybe the writer of that article borrowed the term from Maurice. <g> Slagle