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To: Win Smith who started this subject11/12/2002 2:35:05 PM
From: Win Smith   of 603
 
Harper's Index harpers.org

[I'm not sure, but last's months may have been even more of an irony trove than normal. Selections: ]

Percentage of Americans who blame Bill Clinton's "moral failings" for the current business scandals : 51

Percentage who blame President Bush's "close ties to big corporations" : 46

Percentage of CEOs who blame CEOs for the scandals : 69

Value of the Dow Jones industrial average in 1996 when Alan Greenspan warned of investors' "irrational exuberance" : 6,437

Average number of U.S. print-media references to "our new reality" each week since September 11, 2001 : 1.4

Average number of words of MTV's The Osbournes censored per minute : 2.8
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