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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Sol: good point to make about the secret/not secret dichotomy. My only response is that I'm not certain that Arafat was technically keeping it a secret. Instead, he was preventing too wide a dissemination around the press. But I'm not familiar enough with that area of that conflict to say. McGreevy, though, [URL=http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001916.html]might not be leaving office with nothing. Maybe a mandate![/URL] :) Tim, Lee, & Liam: let me try to explain my thinking this way. What I'm trying to do by bringing the topic up is put forth all the plausible explanations for his current condition and the way events have been unfolding. I won't say that Arafat being either homosexual or infected with HIV has been conclusively proven. It hasn't been. For Suha's and their daughter's sake I hope I'm wrong. But what I'm trying to get across is that [i]as an actuarial exercise[/i] the possibility that either of those is true is higher than I think people are giving it credit for. Were I an epidemiological actuary, I might have put up precise figures. However, since I'm not, we all have to deal in less mathematically precise prose. I'm not reading our prose as giving appropriate weight to the possibility relative to the possibilities that he is suffering from lupus, stomach cancer, or leukemia. Therefore, I have kept defending [i]the possibility[/i] (not the certainty) that he is dying of AIDS. Lee: many people who attack Israel are doing so for anti-semitic reasons. But many other attack their policies out of principle. I have always thought you were firmly in the latter camp. If I came across as thinking the former, I apologize. It was certainly not something I meant to imply if I did. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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