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Able Was I, Ere ...

Monday, April 28, 2003

• TITLE: "Able was I, Ere ..." the first part of a famous palindrome (a word or phrase which reads the same backwards and forwards) which ends, "I saw Elba."

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• "... SARS Travelogue! ..." Here is the minute-by-minute description of my brush with SARS.

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• "... Subscription Drive ..."
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• "... LETTERS ..." Here's the link to a collection of the Letters to Mullings from last Monday's Column (Come Writers and Critics).

• "... NATO ..." Here's the London Times piece on another example of what our allies are up to.

• "... Luxembourg ... " Here's the link to the CIA Fact Book entry on Luxembourg.

• "... zweitens..." German for "seconds."

  According to Mullster Michael Butler the word, zweitens means seconds in the sense of "I'll have seconds on the schnitzel."
  The word I was looking for was Sekunde . Thanks, Michael!

• "... Tony Blair ..." Here's the link to the Financial Times piece on Blair and France.

• "... U.K. Telegraph ... " Here's the link to the Telegraph's piece on French/Iraqi cooperation.

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        World War II Poster
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  An absolutely unretouched photograph of our staff meeting following my return from the Emergency Room on Friday. ____________________________________________________________________________________