At 03:26 PM 08/01/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Before the Gulf War, I was giving an antiwar talk, and some young man, a 
>ROTC type, questioned my patriotism. I replied, "Would I be doing this if 
>I didn't care about my country?" He aapologied and admitted, maybe not. 
>Wasn't that better than saying, "This country is a concatenation of evil?"

if you were to say the latter, most of my students would say (to 
themselves) "concatawhat"? while they'd _all_write it down, probably write 
it down in their notes to memorize for the final.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine

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