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| Author: | Phillip Blanchard [ Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Department of Ridiculous Comparisons |
The Jayson Blair scandal was never about Jayson Blair. [Seth] Mnookin compares Blair to Gavrilo Princip, the Serb nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, thus setting off a chain of events that led to World War I. (Boston Phoenix)<p>***Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute.*** |
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| Author: | SusanV [ Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Department of Ridiculous Comparisons |
What?!?!?<p>I've heard of stretching, but this is ridiculous. |
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| Author: | jmcg [ Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Department of Ridiculous Comparisons |
A foolish comparison indeed, but in what's otherwise not a bad book. Those of us who read and post on this site would it find interesting, I daresay. |
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