»In which the gov'mint has a long way to go

From the first paragraph of the American Forces Press Service newsletter: "President Bush today kicked off a new national program designed to increase the number of Americans fluent in Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindu, Farsi, and other critical-need languages."

The first critical need is noting the distinction between Hindi, "an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North, Central India and Western India; and Hindu, an adherent of "the dominant religious, philosophical and cultural system of Bharat (India), Nepal and the island of Bali".