In a message dated 8/15/2003 8:45:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:


Ah, the geo-centric view of the world appears once again.   If the Big Apple is asleep, all the world must be asleep.


in dfi, all through the breathless coverage of the wonderful, pulling together New Yorkers patting each other on the back as they suffered through one of  the great disasters of all time I thought of ... the U. S. soldiers and the citizens of Iraq.  How they must laugh at our chicken littling over a 1 day power outage - if they have any sense of humor left.        christopher