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for its "oh there's still something the French are seen as doing right, that cannot be tolerated, let's take a flamethrower at it" approach.

Thanks for the level-headed commentary, DoDo.

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 06:18:24 PM EST
I knew I should do this after the first four paragraphs, and then started to write it without first reading the rest. By the time I got to the closing paragraph, I was pretty pissed off myself...

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by DoDo on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 06:31:51 PM EST
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start writing themselves before you're able to finish reading the piece.

Often, my outrage meter is flaring within a few sentences with red pen figuratively (or even physically) marking up a piece before I can get past the first paragraph or two.

Good discussion.

My reaction -- wow, if the United States only had a rail system that was as comprehensive and functioned as well as rail in the UK ...

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by a siegel (siegeadATgmailIGNORETHISdotPLEASEcom) on Tue Apr 10th, 2007 at 11:44:53 AM EST
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