Not really true as my friend Tom Easton of The Economist has shown in brilliant convincing detail through a series of pieces he wrote this year.

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But if anyone has been confused by these e-mails, I want you to know that today I'll be speaking from my heart, and as a true friend of Israel.

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Although my friend counts himself as a true Champagne connoisseur, he buys nonvintage Champagne according to price.

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My friend Vanadis is an endless fountain of stories, all of them true, and most of them far too outlandish to feel at home in the sort of fiction I usually write.

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