>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: numbers problems
>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:41:58
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>>From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at home.com>
>>
>>Number of New York dead may be 2,000 less than official tally
>>
>>Lists reveal huge discrepancies
>>
>>Michael Ellison in New York
>>Friday October 26, 2001
>>The Guardian
>>
>>The official tally of those killed in the World Trade Centre attacks
>>might have been overestimated by 2,000 people, according to the
>>calculations of several organisations.
>>
>>New York city officials say 4,964 are dead or missing but none of the
>>lists maintained by others comes near to that. One compiled by the New
>>York Times puts the toll at about 2,950; another, by USA Today, the
>>nation's biggest-selling newspaper, stops at 2,680; and that
>>maintained by the Associated Press news agency goes no further than
>>2,625.
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>[Let's not forget the cool appraisal of Brad DeLong, numbers guy, on the
>list in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, e.g.:]
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>Re: Hi-jack fall-out
>
>From: Brad DeLong (jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu)
>Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 12:38:09 EDT
>
>... After all, it looks as though as many Americans have died this
>morning as died in the Korean War...
>
>Brad Delong
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>Re: Hi-jack fall-out
>
>From: Brad DeLong (jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu)
>Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 13:00:39 EDT
>
>>I saw some footage (bound to be repeazted ad nauseum) of Palastinians in
>>Jerusalam celebrating. This is gonna get REAL ugly... Jim Baird
>
>20,000 people are dead. What's there to celebrate?
>
>Brad DeLong
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>Re: Hi-jack fall-out
>
>From: Brad DeLong (jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu)
>Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 14:59:53 EDT
>
>>>I saw some footage (bound to be repeazted ad nauseum) of Palastinians in
>>>Jerusalam celebrating. This is gonna get REAL ugly... Jim Baird
>>
>>From the Palestinian viewpoint, things have been real ugly for a while
>>now.
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>25000 dead in half an hour ugly?
>
>Brad DeLong
>
>
>RE: Hi-jack fall-out
>
>From: Brad DeLong (jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu)
>Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 17:12:23 EDT
>
>... There are 300,000 people in New York right now who have just lost
>husbands, wives, parents, children, lovers, and friends.
>
>I dare say that their tragedy has to weigh more heavily in the scale
>right now than the (real) tragedy in Gaza, doesn't it?
>
>Brad DeLong
>
>[end of excerpts]
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>Carl
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