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2003-12-27 India-Pakistan

Top Indian rebel reported dead in custody

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-12-27 12:10:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "I am the leader of ULFA. I'm ready to negotiate..."

Brilliant! Bravo!

Posted by Lucky 2003-12-27 12:42:41 AM|| 2003-12-27 12:42:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Paul, I know the real story is confusing but your title reminds me of a sentence culled from newspaper writeup of a car wreck

Two cycles belonging to girls left leaning against lamp posts were badly damaged.

(:-)>

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-27 5:38:49 AM|| 2003-12-27 5:38:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, I changed the title from the uninformative one used by the Beeb, but I meant to type
"Top Indian rebel reported dead is in custody", although even that isn't grammatically proper, I guess.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-12-27 6:58:22 AM|| 2003-12-27 6:58:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Headline writing is tough. Many years back I clipped (and lost, dammit) from the local rag, item about a position taken by a group of editors/publishers supporting a literacy campaign, they, no shit, having a vested interest in folks being able to read and write. And thus titled: "Newspapers Headline Fight Against Literacy". sigh.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-27 8:25:02 AM|| 2003-12-27 8:25:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Paul - Glenn (NR) - are you sure you two don't have some Pennsylvania Dutch blood in your past? Gramma Fenstermacher never was able to rearrange the PA Dutch into decent English. It always came out something like "Throw your father over the fence the hammer."

Posted by doc8404 2003-12-27 10:53:10 PM|| 2003-12-27 10:53:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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