Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:51:10 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at boo.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ambiguous headline
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 06:20 PM 1/16/03 -0500, you wrote:
>I recently saw the following alarming headline at CNN.COM:
>
>   One of six New York men pleads guilty to aiding al Qaeda
>
>I was rather distressed, until I read the story.  No, it doesn't
>really assert that 1.67 million of the ten million male residents
>of the Empire State have admitted to assisting terrorists.

Keith, that headline was correct.  You are thinking of "One *in* six NY men..."

See ya tomorrow.