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-- does this mean that somebody did buy both editions of the same book, or is that not how Amazon works?
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How horrible that our dear leaders have to be told by the Germans that locking asylum-seekers up in concentration camps is a really offensive idea:
A source close to Gerhard Schroder, the German chancellor, said: ``I think you know what we in Germany think nowadays about putting people in camps.''
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Re-reading bits of P G Wodehouse, I was struck by how similar the Jeeves and Wooster stories are to Yes, Minister (especially the one short story written from Jeeves's perspective). Grubbing about with Google, I find that Jonathan Lynn has a web page, complete with fascinating factlets --
Q. How and where did you learn the secrets of the civil service...?
A. I think we made them up.
-- and on-line copies of the Gerald Scarfe cartoons from the television programme's title sequence. Better than your average `celebrity' web site.
- Some comments on intellectual-property advocacy which I feel should be taken to heart. (But I would think that.)