Letters to the Editor

• Norway's medal count

  [Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
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  Hey King, lighten up on Norway. Not every medal is gold. Norway won 19 medals--2 gold, 8 silver, 9 bronze. Not bad for a country of 4.6 million.

  Cheers!

  Permalink Monday, February 27, 2006 09:47 AM

• Going to parties

  [Read the article: The Fool and the Knave]
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  ccrowson wrote:

  > I wish I could remember or find the quote. Either HL Menken or IF Stone said something about being the friend of politicians makes you unable to write about them. Something about going to their parties.

  I don't know that quote, but I remember the comedian Alexei Sayle's comment on why he didn't go to parties: "You go to parties, and you meet Paul McCartney, and you think, well, Paul isn't so bad. And then you meet Maggie Thatcher, and you think, well, Maggie isn't so bad. And then you meet Adolf Hitler..."

  Permalink Thursday, May 4, 2006 07:20 AM

• Re: "upper-lower-middle-class"

  [Read the article: Must I always be haunted by the loss of my one true love?]
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  I don't know what it means, but it's possibly an allusion to George Orwell, who described his family background in those words.

  Permalink Friday, June 23, 2006 10:11 AM

• Lunar transit

  [Read the article: The Fix]
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  Uh, that would be a lunar transit of the *sun*. Cheers.

  Permalink Wednesday, March 14, 2007 08:33 AM

• Labour

  [Read the article: Tony Blair becomes Margaret Thatcher]
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  A note to the editor: I know this is an American publication, but Blair's party is named Labour, not Labor.

  Regards.

  Permalink Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:06 AM

• Be not so quick

  [Read the article: Big trouble in rural China]
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  Hey Anonymous, be not so quick to take offense. I agree that the article's intro could have done with some editing, but I didn't ever get the impression that the author was saying that "it's ok for men to kill themselves" (I am male btw).

  >Would there be any mention of this article in Broadsheet if the stats were reversed?

  It *is* a column about *women's* issues...

  Regards.

  Permalink Wednesday, May 16, 2007 09:10 AM