Blair writes: >>Right. I've been careless. My apologies. It should be obvious that my question/criticism refers equally to the "Far East" or "the Orient." Actually, from the point of view of England, I'd think that Ireland is the Far East. And for the U.S. the Far East would be California. Hey, that's me! :)<< That reminds me very little of the following story: one time when Arlo Guthrie was giving one of his very long but highly amusing introductions to his father Woody's song "This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land," he mentioned that the song had become so popular that even children in China were singing it. He wondered aloud how it could make sense _in China_ to sing about "from the redwood forests to the New York island." Of course, he said, they were talking about going _the other way_ around the globe! (Even more annecdotal and trivial but at least it's parenthetical: I told my son Guthrie about the recent concern honoring Woody G. at the Rock'n'Roll hall of fame in Cleveland. A six-year-old, he immediately started singing "This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land." Unlike me, he remembers the lyrics easily.) in pen-l solidarity, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] <74267,[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ., 7900 Loyola Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045-8410 USA 310/338-2948 (daytime, during workweek); FAX: 310/338-1950 "Thank god we finally had us a war it was what we'd been spending our tax dollars for; the rivers of gore we can wave the flag o'er sparking the stock market rally soaring as high as the casualty tally" -- Roy Zimmerman (about the previous US war against Iraq)
