After Saddam Hussein's capture by U.S. forces back in December, he responded to questions from members of the Iraqi Governing Council by "us[ing] all his French". John Kerry, in contrast, declines to exhibit his French in public.
Hopfield's law says that "there are three things that you shouldn't do in public; the third is mathematics." I always assumed that the other two were defecation and sex, but ....
Posted by Mark Liberman at April 21, 2004 08:27 AM