E-Jihad

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E-JIHAD

   From the NEW YORK POST, 27 October 2000, pg. 2, col. 6:

_"e-Jihad"_
_extremists_
_tangle up_
_Israeli Web_
   Islamic extremist groups, opening a new front in the holy war against
Israel, have launched sophisticated cyberspace attacks that have paralyzed
major Israeli government Web sites, The Post has learned.
   The carefully coordinated attacks--dubbed the e-Jihad--are originating in
the United States and Britain and have shut down Web sites of the Israeli
Defense Forces, the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Parliament this
week.

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MISC.

OED ON CBS--David Shulman told me that he just got a call from a Joel
Bernstein from CBS.  They want to profile Shulman in a story about the OED.
I don't know anything more.

SHOPSPLOITATION--This word was used by Alexandra Jacobs in the NEW YORK
OBSERVER, 30 October 2000, pg. 26, col. 3, but there are no Dow Jones
database hits.  A "'shopsloitation' event" is described.

WORK STANDING UP--Well, Michael Dell does it, so doesn't everybody?  Is this
some big internet joke I don't know about?  From the NEW YORK OBSERVER, 30
October 2000, pg. 32, col. 4:  "... may either be home-office shut-ins or
come to the office nad have to work standing up (note to the reader: this is
an e-joke)..."

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH--The Periodicals Contents Index has WRITER'S
DIGEST, June 1956, pg. 13 title of article:  "_Meanwhile...back at the ranch_
 Remember this old Western crutch for transitions?  These days you have to
move your reader about more subtly."  (What does OED have on "meet
cute"?--ed.)