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• News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli...
• From north to south, from east to west.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Day...
• In the uttermost West I was Olorin,In the South I am Incanus, among the elves I am Mithrandir,in the North I am Gandalf.
  To the East,I go not"-rough Tolkien quote from Gandalf....
• The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we find the South End.
  This is not to be confused with South Boston which lies directly east from the South End....
• I have heard something said about allegiance to the South.
  I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance....
• logical adj. [from the technical term `logical device', wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary `logical' name] Having the role of.
  If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the `logical' Les Earnest....