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 Post subject: Thanks to the miracle of AP ....
PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 5:46 pm 
... you know know the following about Saddam Hussein:<p>-- Saddam, dressed in a dark suit, sat across a table from Benn in a gilded chair in front of a curtain and a white, black and red Iraqi flag with three green stars. Occasionally he turned a pen in his hands, lining it up precisely on a green book on the table before him.<p>-- The Iraqi leader spoke slowly in precise, careful tones, his voice at times falling very low, as he sipped from a cup of Arabic coffee in what appeared to be a room in one of his palaces.<p>*** I hope the U.S. intelligence community has been thoroughly briefed on this vital material.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 11:29 am 
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The newspaper I plucked from my frozen doorstep this morning contained a photograph of Saddam Hussein dressed in a dark suit, seated in a gilded chair in front of a curtain and sipping from a coffee cup.
So I agree, the AP's description seems reasonably accurate. Or was that not your point? ;)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 4:09 pm 
My point is that such descriptions were fatuous, superfluous and unnecessary. It's news, not a Barbara Walters chat.
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Jim Thomsen:
My point is that such descriptions were fatuous, superfluous and unnecessary. It's news, not a Barbara Walters chat.<hr></blockquote><p>Usually, I would agree, but I am not bothered by the sartorial details in this case, assuming they were not overemphasized. The worst example of this kind of thing that I encountered: In the lede or 2nd graf of a story about a teenage girl who shot her father to death, the reporter worked in that she appeared at her arraignment wearing yellow ankle socks.
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