From the National Review online:
>By Peter Ferrara, an associate professor of law at the George Mason
University School of Law. September 25, 2001 9:20 a.m.
>You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was
actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper
there an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
You probably immediately picked up on the source of the offer: "Someone in
Some newspaper." If the person offering the reward does not sign their name,
how does one collect the reward? The author does not even know the name of
the newspaper he quotes. Not the Karachi Chronicle, the Peshawar Picayune
Times or the Islamabad International Herald; just "a newspaper." The
original story has urban-legend written all over it.
Like all hardcore urban legends, this one is long on innuendo and short on
facts. Since the premise is false, his reply is moot. One hopes the law
professor teaches his students about the rules of evidence better than he
practices them in his journalistic endeavors.

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Yosef Rosenblatt

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