everyone should have a good dictionary. . . .

[George Thompson]

. . . especially when rioting.  From today's NYTimes (Sunday)
In 2000, a tabloid antipedophile campaign led to vigilante attacks in
which, at one point, a crowd
confused<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society>
the
words pedophile and pediatrician and vandalized the home of an innocent
doctor.

There is a link in the on-line Times to a story from The Guardian, late
August, 2000:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society

GAT

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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