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- From: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.151514.4907@maths.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:15:14 GMT
- References: <C0y7n3.Mpu@newcastle.ac.uk> <C0yqHw.464@demon.co.uk> <2414@snap> <30567@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
- Organization: Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
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- In article <30567@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
- >It is impossible to underestimate the technical ignorance and
- >scientific naivete of our leaders.
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- My head is spinning. Do you *really* mean that our leaders are
- incredibly knowledgeable and sophisticated? Or did you intend to write
- that it's easy to overestimate their knowledge and sophistication? [I
- have trouble with "No head injury is too trivial to be ignored" as well.]
-
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- Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
- anw@maths.nott.ac.uk
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