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Re: Original game concept?

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From: Patrick Rondon
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 00:00
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> Funny how all this sympathy/mourning/greivance/etc. can be directed in
> such massive waves at some royal bint who dies drunk and in the arms of
> some strange man and a vehicle driven by some sauced-up chauffeur. 
> 
> Meanwhile, over 400 Angolan women and children were brutally slaughtered
> (the very same day Princess Di kissed the wall at 200kph no less) by
> fundamentalist terrorists. When does all the outrage and sorrow for them
> come in do you figure? Oh, that's right...they weren't royalty. 

The saying "When one man dies, it's a tradgedy. When 500 die, it's a
statistic" comes to mind.
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From: "Patrick Rondon" <praxim@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: Original game concept?
Date: 1997/09/06
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