whether the joke was funnier in English than in French, and he replied, “No, but Mitterrand
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whether the joke was funnier in English than in French, and he replied, “No, but Mitterrand
doesn’t know how to tell a joke, his translator does.”
Recently, Elie had quintuple bypass surgery. I had lunch with him shortly thereafter, and all he
could talk about was the future and how important it was to keep up the struggle for human
rights. Elie Wiesel is truly one of the great men of the 21* Century. When I think of how close
he came to not surviving, and when I think of how many other Elie Wiesels were lost in the
flames of Auschwitz, I begin to understand the full horrors of the Holocaust.
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