Your standards decline [Archives:2005/836/Letters to the Editor]

Fuad Alaswadi
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I am an English teacher. I have been following your excellent and esteemed newspaper for the past ten years and since then, I kept learning not only English, but also how to be open-minded, accurate, tolerant, frank, honest etc when dealing with people and issues of all kinds. I know that people won't believe me if I say that the late Abdualaziz Alsaqqaf was the main reason behind my complete change, from a man of almost nothing, careless, hesitant , away from people, society etc, to a very different human being. A man born again . I am sorry to say that, the son and the daughter, who are now the chief editor of the newspaper, of the late Alsaqqaf , are absolutely nothing compared with their great father. They are still far away from the greatness, fame, popularity, rank, universality, experience, knowledge, patience etc. of their late father. Once again, sorry to express my opinion that way, but believe me, since the great loss of the late, the newspaper has fully changed in almost every single aspect. Even the articles, which are written by the editor in chief, are almost incomparable to the ones of the late.

I am not exaggerating when I say my humble opinion of the late, that he was matchless, unique and the first of his kind not only in the Arab world but also in the world.

In conclusion, I am sure it is very hard to be like your father, so please try to imitate him.
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