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[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/29/2010 08:38 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>And as Geoff points
>out, there's also the specificity contrast--"some Jews on the panel
>voted for/against the proposal" sounds pretty pejorative; "(some)
>Jews on the panel would add diversity" not so much.

But how about "(some) Jews on the panel would not add diversity"?  :-)

Joel

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