Re: Barbarians don't know FAZ from TAZ

[Gary Kern <gkern@alumni.Princeton.EDU>]

> 
> Gary Kern schrieb:
> 
> > Taz-Faz--out here in the provinces we barbarians don't know ass from
> > elbow.  Could you help us out?
> >
> > GK
> >
> > Taz in Russian means washbasin.  When you're sick in bed, it can be put
> > to another use.
> 
> HI there,
> 
> FAZ is short for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which is the foremost
> "conservative" paper in Grmany known for it's layout that is the exact opposite
> from USA Today. (It's neartly all print...) You can find a little bit about it
> at http://www.faz.de
> 
> TAZ ist short for "Die Tageszeitung" and is a leftish-alternative newspaper
> founded in the late Seventies. Thy carry a halo of leftist self-righteousness
> which makes it rather impossible for me to read it, even though it's a lot more
> in my political line than the FAZ. You find them at http://www.taz.de
> 
> WamS btw is Welt am Sonntag is the sunday edition of the Welt, a
> Springer-newspaper that wants to be taken serious (that's what you call a
> paradox I guess) and is IMHOpretty unreadable as well. HEimo Schwilk works for
> them though...
> -> http://www.welt.de/
> 
> That's my admittedly rather biased view of things...
> 
> Greeting to you barbarians ;-) from a hun
> 
> Olaf
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I found my elbow and the other part too, so all is well.
Thanks for the help.

GK