News Media, please make up your mind!

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• Madame Chiang Kai-shek Dies, 105 (washingtonpost.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9981-2003Oct24.html

• Madame Chiang Kai-shek dies at age 106 (CNN.com)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/10/24/obit.madame.chiang.ap/index.html

Is she dead or not?

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

she's dead. her birth certificate is very hard to read.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

That's because it's in Chinese!

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Insert obligatory "chinese arithmetic" joke _here_.

― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, don't Chinese ages start at one? You're born and you're one, and then when we would think of you as turning 1 they think of you as turning 2, etc. I remember something like that, although I might be hopelessly confused or deluded.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always heard that too, Cas, and apparently so has CNN!

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

so they're both right, according to different standards.
just like when Obi Wan Kenobi told Luke that Darth Vader murdered his father.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 24 October 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

No, no, no, no, H.M., do go on with this both right bizniz...we're talking about CNN and the Washington Post. Much more likely, they're both wrong!

― Skottie, Friday, 24 October 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

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