"P.Fritz" wrote in message
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News sources? Since when do 'news sources" make something credible?????

Duh....

1) Because they sometimes quote real people.
2) Because they're produced by people who are trained to write in a style
acceptable to the largest audience, and who adhere to rules of common usage
as stated in such books as "The AP Stylebook".
3) Because you can find many examples of words being used in certain ways,
and by sheer weight of numbers, they make it clear that when just ONE person
uses a word another way, it's either because they're uneducated, or the word
is being used that way as an affectation. Like Bush's use of "Grecian".


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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/politics/03CODE.html
How to Break a Code, Ever Since the Days of the Sphinx
By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Code makers and code breakers have danced a dance of secrecy and revelation
throughout recorded history. Allegations that Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi
leader and former Bush administration ally, disclosed to an Iranian official
that the United States had cracked the code used by its intelligence service
is only the most recent example.

The ancient Egyptians and Greeks used the simple scytale, a rod with a strip
of paper wrapped around it. Codemakers wrote their messages lengthwise along
the rod and would then unwrap the paper; the recipient wrapped the paper
around another rod of the same diameter to read the message. But anyone with
the right rod could read the message, too.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/bo...06TRAVELL.html

Sarrinikolaou explores numerous sides of Athens -- the slums and the rich
suburbs, the church and the soccer stadium -- as he considers the uneasy
relationship of so many modern Greeks with tradition and the past,
interspersing these observations with memories from his own childhood. If
today's Athens is ruled by cynicism and opportunism, he reflects, there are
ample reasons for it: ''In the span since this nation was founded, its
leaders have turned on each other and on the people; they have sided with
tyrants, killers and other assorted monsters, while, all along, they have
stolen from the public coffers.''

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http://travel2.nytimes.com/mem/trave...56C0A9629C8B63
AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN; TRUE HOME COOKING, GREEK STYLE
By DIANE KOCHILAS

IT was a driving trek of heroic proportions up the dirt road from Rethimno,
the historic seaside fort city on the northern coast of Crete, to the tiny
village of Potamous, on one of those dusty Greek-island dirt roads that are
less daunting than they seem, but nonetheless make every passenger but the
driver look like they just stepped off a cyclone. On a friend's
recommendation, I was heading, with my husband, Vassili Stenos, to this
practically unpopulated village about an hour's drive into the mountains to
eat.

After our exploring and eating around the island, I understand why Greeks
consider Crete their culinary cradle, a place where the food traditions of
the whole Aegean culminate. Crete's well-defined cuisine is shaped by the
seasons and by a well-honed sense of versatility. Although the same simple
ingredients are used again and again, local cooks use them to create a whole
spectrum of different dishes. At any time of the year, the food is
memorable, as long as you are sampling the real thing.

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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...C0A9629C8B 63
Achilles' temperament -- a volatile mixture of vanity, cynicism and
sentimentality -- is the key to the movie, and Mr. Pitt attacks the role
with the same vigor and agility the character demonstrates in combat. Yes,
his accent sounds a bit like Madonna's, perhaps in deference to the mostly
English and Australian actors who make up most of the cast, but for once he
does not seem embarrassed by his charisma, or driven to subvert it with
actorish tics. Achilles' narcissism is like that of a modern celebrity: he
fights because it will bring him fame, not to serve the gods or the glory of
the Greek nation or, least of all, his corrupt king. His true loyalty is to
individuals -- his beloved cousin Patroclus (Garrett Hedlund), his ruthless
Myrmidons and his love interest, the captured Trojan priestess Briseis (Rose
Byrne) -- rather than to causes.