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(...) From imdb: Factual errors: The Guildford 4 & the Maguire 7 were not tried in the same court simultaneously. Factual errors: Guiseppe Conlon & Gerry were never in the same prison. (...) It must be: (URL) differnce is that the public in the UK (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Kurdish people not equal to PKK just like Irish people not not equal to IRA. I hope this would help. And if the film "In The Name of My Father" ((URL) has any truth in it, it is sometimes quite difficult to separate one from the other, huh? (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Prices in Sweden: One US gallon = 3.85 US $ one metric litre = 10:36 Skr one US gallon = 3.7854 litres 1 US$ = 10:198 Skr (10.36 x 3.7854) / 10.198 = 3.8455.... /Tobbe (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ah. But a certain NATO country is no friend to the kurds either. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ya, and Yogi Berra nevers said "Deja Vu all over again", right??? <grin> ++Lar (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What's to investigate, it's like discovering that bears poop in the woods. The man (and I use word that in only the biological sense) is the scum of the earth. He has been killing off the marsh Arabs in the south and the Kurds in the north (he (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry, I wasn't trying to pick a fight, either. I certainly didn't receive your words as negative criticism towards myself -- I definitely need to try to express that better in the future. FWIW, I liked the movie. The first time I watched it (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ...and 10 years after the event Saddam Hussein is being _investigated_ for war crimes: (URL) shall sleep well tonight knowing that Scotland Yard is on the case. Scott A (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ooh! Thank you Dan! I could go for some good salsa about now. (...) And who are you to turn the heart of the average American? To introduce some new compassion into even a small fraction of your peers...it's a pretty tall order. I hate to (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) invasions and occupation of land in Egypt, Syria and Lebenon and their occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. On a side note: the USA still maintains sanctions against Cuba, really for no good reason other than because the Cold War generation (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Uh-oh... I think it is obvious that I taken it in a very different, actually in exact reverse context..:-) Selçuk (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's the US; we don't do anything half-way! If we're going to have a work week, we're going to have the *longest* work week. Ditto stress level and divorce rates! Go team! (...) In my work toward an English degree I was required to buy three (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In Scotland, I pay around US$5.50 for a UK gallon (8 pints). It is not the end of the world to be honest, I would not mind paying a little more if the tax was well spent or if it helped (directly or indirectly) reduce pollution. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But we be forgiven by our families for working >50 hours per week? I read the USA has the longest working week, highest levels of work related stress and the worst divorce rates in the west. (...) 100% correct. In the field I work in everyone (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't know that "busy" needs to be in quotes, or if it's even a matter of laziness. If I (and countless others) spend 50+ each week working and/or commuting to work, in addition to other immediate responsibilities, I think we can be forgiven (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And Sagan never said "Billions and billions." 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe that was Stalin, himself no stranger to the deaths of thousands (or millions, as I think the original quote indicated. Dave! (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Recently seen on a bumper sticker... " All in favor of lower gas prices, raise your right foot! " :) Greg Betzel (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I strongly agree. I remember a good sentence from some important personality in history, but can't remember who is him right now. "Death of a person is tragedy. Death of a thousand people is statistics." When you start to think about it as a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I find it very ironic that a whole nation apparently solemnly commemorates the WW2 persecution when they themselves are current persecutors. Very ironic. I note that there is currently an economic blockade of Gaza and the West Bank: (URL) A (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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