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Nicholas Lezard: Read between the lines, Arnie

Source: The Independent
Sacramento : CA : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, we learn, has joined the ranks of those who have used the initial letters of a document to spell out a very rude phrase – a reply to a Democratic assemblyman who had heckled him received a veto whose initial letters on the left-hand margin spelled out "F***...
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