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Subject: [Leica] Susan Sontag
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas M. Sharp)
Date: Wed Dec 29 06:26:06 2004
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Dan,
I was amazed to find that a lot of people under 30 outside the USA, where a 
lot 
of people are, including myself, have never heard of either. I do not insist 
on 
calling him by the name he was given at birth, neither do I insist on 
calling 
the late German chancellor Willi Brandt, Herbert Frahn. If we write assuming 
that everyone else knows exactly the same as we do, then OK.
As long as information is not embedded in verbal or written noise (see the 
RUG-list for a particularly good  of this) I will try to express clearly and 
without ambiguity whatever I hope to communicate.
cheers
Douglas
In navigation you don't know where you are with only one coordinate either.

Dan C wrote:

> I'm amazed that there are still some people who insist on calling the man,
> "Cassius Clay".
> 
> -dan c.
> 
> At 12:56 PM 29-12-04 +0100, Douglas M. Sharp wrote:
> 
>>A sporting hero? who still talks about Mark Spitz or Cassius "Muhammed 
>>Ali" 
>>Clay? World class - definitely - but did they change the world for all 
>>time?
>>To some extent I might be prepared to admit that Clay did manage to
> 
> increase the 
> 
>>acceptance of Afro-Americans in US society, but no more than that.
> 
> 
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