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Bumfketeer	Post subject: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 9:18 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	BRUSSELS, Belgium … He's already Italy's richest man, a billionaire media tycoon, soccer supremo … and Italian prime minister. Today, Silvio Berlusconi gets to represent the European Union.<p> The prospect is provoking diplomatic concern and howls of outrage from headline writers around the continent as Italy … with Berlusconi at its helm … assumes the six-month rotating EU presidency.<p>***********I'm not particularly outraged. Are you?
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Hawkeye	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:12 pm
Joined: Tue Jan 14, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 78 Location: South Carolina	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer: ***********I'm not particularly outraged. Are you?<hr></blockquote><p>Not really. But then again, I don't live on the continent.<p>[ June 30, 2003: Message edited by: Hawkeye ]</p>
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 10:35 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	That's true. But I bet "The Reader" doesn't understand why headline writers would be "outraged," nor would "The Reader" give a shit about alleged copy editor "outrage."<p>Unless, of course, things are different on that continent...
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gullyj	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:18 pm
Joined: Fri Jun 21, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 145 Location: Toronto	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr><p>***********I'm not particularly outraged. Are you?[/QB]<hr></blockquote><p>It didn't take Berlusconi long to prove to the rest of the world why much of Europe is outraged by his behaviour:<p>LISA JUCCA REUTERS NEWS AGENCY<p>STRASBOURG, France—Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ruined his debut as head of the European Union yesterday when he stirred outrage by comparing a critical German lawmaker with a Nazi concentration camp guard.<p>*******I don't suppose American newspaper readers need to be outraged but neither should they live in isolation*************
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gullyj	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:20 pm
Joined: Fri Jun 21, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 145 Location: Toronto	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer: That's true. But I bet "The Reader" doesn't understand why headline writers would be "outraged," nor would "The Reader" give a shit about alleged copy editor "outrage."<p>Unless, of course, things are different on that continent...<hr></blockquote><p> I'm curious: Just what do readers give a shit about?
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nstockdale	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:28 pm
Joined: Sat Feb 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 281 Location: Dallas	Comics
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SusanV	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:40 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1399 Location: In the newsroom	Sharon Stone's marital status, apparently.
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jbm	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:42 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 20, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 83 Location: New York	The crossword puzzle.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 10:47 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	Tiresomely long weather stories.
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carola	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 1:20 am
Joined: Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 43 Location: pennsylvania	Well, Im European and I don't want this right-wing Italian version of Rupert Murdoch representing the EU or, for that matter, Italy.<p>That said, I only ran a brief on the story because I knew the reaction of my readers would be..jeez, who cares.
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gullyj	Post subject: Re: It's a bloody outrage Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 1:05 pm
Joined: Fri Jun 21, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 145 Location: Toronto	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Nicole Stockdale: Comics<hr></blockquote><p>Then they'l love Berlusconi.<p>(Fine answers, all.)
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