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symbioidljIt gets more and more Orwellian the more you look.
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CRAWFORD, Texas, Nov. 15 – Something didn't add up.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Bush were at Crawford High School this morning, discussing their three days of meetings together. Bush said the two leaders would take questions from the students.
"No math questions," an uncharacteristically impish Putin interjected.
"Good idea," Bush replied, then recalled an old campaign line. "Particularly no fuzzy math questions." The reason for the aversion to mathematics soon became apparent.
Moments later, Bush explained how the two leaders had learned to move beyond the zero-sum relations of the Cold War. "We now understand one plus one can equal three," the president said, instead of zero.
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From 1984:
"Do you remember writing in your diary 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four'?"
"Yes" said Winston.
O'Brien held up his left hand, its back toward Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
"How many fingers am I holding up Winston?"
"Four."
"And if the Party says that it is not four, but five-- Then how many?"
"Four."
The word ended in a gasp of pain. The needle of te dial had shot up to fifty-five.....
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CRAWFORD, Texas, Nov. 15 – Something didn't add up.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Bush were at Crawford High School this morning, discussing their three days of meetings together. Bush said the two leaders would take questions from the students.
"No math questions," an uncharacteristically impish Putin interjected.
"Good idea," Bush replied, then recalled an old campaign line. "Particularly no fuzzy math questions." The reason for the aversion to mathematics soon became apparent.
Moments later, Bush explained how the two leaders had learned to move beyond the zero-sum relations of the Cold War. "We now understand one plus one can equal three," the president said, instead of zero.
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From 1984:
"Do you remember writing in your diary 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four'?"
"Yes" said Winston.
O'Brien held up his left hand, its back toward Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
"How many fingers am I holding up Winston?"
"Four."
"And if the Party says that it is not four, but five-- Then how many?"
"Four."
The word ended in a gasp of pain. The needle of te dial had shot up to fifty-five.....
