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To: H James Morris who wrote (127590)	7/2/2001 8:36:36 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	of 164684

interactive.wsj.com "Followers of the Motley Fool Are Suffering, and Not Gladly By IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- For some investors, Motley Fool(www.fool.com) has turned into something of a tragedy. "Who was I kidding, thinking I could do this on my own?" scoffs Bruce Corigliano, a former "Fool" follower, marking a shift in the reverential tone that he and other small investors had when they gushed about the popular Web site during the bull market. The 50-year-old Los Angeles doctor says that last year he lost 30% of his children's college fund by following a stock-buying strategy devised by David and Tom Gardner, brothers who sparked the do-it-yourself investment movement in 1994 with an electronic forum named after a Shakespearean character. Wearing jester hats and trumpeting the profits on their model portfolios, the then-twentysomething English majors demonstrated that stock picking was fun and easy. " It is worth reading the rest.

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