BS: Find a Washington Post News Article

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From: Peace
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 03:55 PM

Clever.

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: GUEST,Hannah Elliott
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 03:45 PM

Hey yall i am at school rite now haha

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Peace
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 11:56 PM

Ebbie: I hear it years and years and years ago. No idea where it's from. I ain't smart enough to think of anything like that.

Bruce M

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Amos
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 11:45 PM

Mansoor made a number of very strong and powerful and wise statements at that meeting, one of which was exhorting the sheiks to choose wisely. He sounded for a moment reminiscent of Lawrence of Arabia. How romantic. But it brings up the observation that we have had impasses of this kind in the past, and there still is no gold in Aqaba.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 09:52 PM

Actually, brucie, it's very clever. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 04:48 PM

Et tu? Brucie

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 03:20 PM

Through a window, with just one eye and the peak of a hat showing. Be afraid.

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Amos
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 03:18 PM

BRucie:

You deserve to be shot in the dark for that one.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Peace
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 03:04 PM

It was the time of the Caesars in ancient Rome. The Empire was in bloom. A lone farmer had foud a way to grow a huge, delicious strawberry--it was over two feet in diameter and weighed about twenty-one pounds. People from miles around went to admire it. They paid admission. Subsequently, Rome wanted its share of the money he earned. The farmer refused to pay. Two nights later there was a loud pounding on his door. The farmer yelled, "Go away. I am not showing the fruit at this hour. The legionaires kept banging on the door. The farmer opened it. The commander of the troop began to enter. The farmer reiterated: "I am not showing the fruit at this hour!" The commander said, "Ah, but we have come to seize your berry, not to praise it."

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 02:30 PM

Thanks much, Amos. My paper's caption was: "Meeting with Tribal Leaders Shows Tension." Inspired, what?

For those who hesitate at signing up for the Washington Post, here is an excerpt from the article:

"The meeting began cordially enough in the tattered ballroom of the Ishtar Sheraton Hotel. Greetings of "Peace be upon you" and "May God bless your footsteps" were exchanged. But polite discussion descended rapidly into complaints, then accusations, and finally threats. Both sides were talking -- mostly past one another.
"
In the end a dozen men in checkered headdresses milled excitedly in front of a podium, thrusting their fists in the air and shouting, "Yes! Yes! Moqtada!" and "Yes! Yes! Iraq!" The Americans hurried into armored vests and made for the door.

"Let's get out of here," Mansoor said. "

Subject: RE: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Amos
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 02:05 PM

It is at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4142-2004Apr11.html and is entitled "Iraqi Bond Breaks as Fighting Rages".

A

Subject: BS: Find a Washington Post News Article
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Apr 04 - 01:35 PM

In my local paper this morning is an article about a meeting in Baghdad between the U.S. Army and Iraqi tribal leaders. It shows very clearly the difficulties inherent in different cultures and their perceptions of what the other means.

I can't find it in the internet news, try as I might under different wordings, different headlines, different names...

Karl Vick is the columnist reporting from Baghdad. He mentions Sunday April 4, so it is a recent article.

The article begins: "Every week for nearly a year, Col. Peter Mansoor has gathered with proud men who move down the sidewalks of downtown Baghdad in flowing robes, tribal leaders in a crippled capital that occupier and occupied were trying to rebuild together.

"Sunday morning, they met for the last time. "I take my leave of you, Mansoor said, "I was hoping it would be in happier times."

The meeting ended with threats.

Can anyone find the article? Kat? If you agree that it is an article worth reading, please create a link to it. Thank'ee.