When I started editing the Guardian crosswords, national identity letters linked to car number plates were not generally accepted as crossword conventions.
While I can understand your desire to print opposing views on the question of Palestinian identity (Letters, June 1), at least some of the "facts" in Carroll B. Stoianoff's letter appear flawed.
(A ) First, we assigned letter identities (bold letters) to cells active on a trajectory.
Sincerely, Second Lieutenant (Identity withheld) LETTERS, the soldiers want letters.
My assistant, Joseph Burgess, analyzed Reply All for the period of March 6, its date of inception, through Oct. 9 to get a quantitative understanding of the shift away from traditional identity in letters from readers.
But that did not stop self-appointed guardians in the Zaki Street market of the Maadi neighborhood from repeatedly demanding identity documents, letters of permission and, especially, proof of not being affiliated with Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news network, which is reviled because it is owned by Qatar, a strong supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.
We tested this possibility in Experiment 2 and found that the MCE for "repeated/novel" primes (i.e. primes that shared identical abstract letter identities with the repeated primes but whose physical form was novel) was very similar to the MCE for novel primes (i.e. primes that were novel at both the level of abstract letter identities and physical form).
Critically, if the distinctive MCE for repeated primes in Experiment 1 was due to an exclusive modulation of central representations, then repeated and repeated/novel primes should produce the same pattern priming in the present experiment by virtue of sharing identical abstract letter identities.
Its authenticity is disputed but, whatever the sender's real identity, the letter has a central place in Ripper mythology and therefore in our conceptions of crime and the criminal.
Still, after any inquiry about identity, the letter says, Norris must inform the client-and "I must also decline to answer the inquiry".
