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Subject: Good news for Greek and Latin? (was. Re: Good news for Greek
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At 19:05 14.05.01, KOPFF E CHRISTIAN wrote:
>Alessandra Stanley on Silvio Berlusconi in the New York TIMES Magazine:
>
>"Berlusconi recently lamented to reporters that he had never mastered
>English and knows only French, Latin and Greek. "I am a Greek scholar,"
>he said. "I used to compose Greek verses off the top of my head."

Hmm, is this good news?


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