(temporary) SOTA

[Jonathan Lighter]

"When it's least expected, you're detected."

JL

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> In my subscription edition of today's (Wednesday June 1) NYT op-ed
> page, Thomas Friedman's column, "The Bin Laden Decade", includes this
> sentence:
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> As the Arab leaders choked their people that much tighter, along came
> Facebook, Twitter and cellphone cameras, which enabled those people
> to share grievances, organize rebellions, lose their fear and expose
> their leaders: "Smile, you're brutality is on Candid Camera."
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> Good news for people who are not looking forward to the Apocalypse:
> this was corrected in the online edition, which now reads "...your
> brutality..."
>
> LH
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