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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (27632)	7/16/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: Steve Misic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Uncle, What is your take on the stalling of the internet giants lately? Does the move to new records in S&P and NAZ without AOL, YHOO ect. mean trouble ahead for DOT? Your friend, Steve

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (27632)	7/17/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: napoopoo1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Ike, The dot closed below level you mentioned today, while indu closed above resistence you mentioned earlier. I sold some net stocks today. Do you feel the nets will sell off or was today options related? congradulations on your on line retail transaction. I have been wondering what kind of broker you use. I remember you indicating that it is some kind of broker you call and he trades by your levels. I am trying to come up with a real simple trading system that could be used when traveling ect. Best Wishes and have a good weekend, N1

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (27632)	7/17/1999 8:40:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Millennium Fever Dateline: 07/13/99 Everyone seems to be catching a premature strain of Millennium Fever as 1999 is heralded as the last year of the century. The same thing happened one hundred years ago. In a 1901 sketch called "History 1,000 Years From Now," Mark Twain wrote: Today no subject but the one -- the past -- can get much attention. We began, a couple of years ago, with a quarrel as to whether the dying century closed with the 31st of December 2899, or whether it would close with the last day of last year, and it took the entire world the best part of a year to settle it; then the past was taken hold of with interest, and that interest has increased in strength and in fascination ever since. Wise sages had to remind the public that our calendar starts with Year One (1-10 or 1-1900), not zero (0-9 or 0-1899). The year 2000 will be the last year of this century and 2001 will be the first year of the 21st century. From the 19th Century to the 20th In December 1900, Mark Twain published this "Salutation Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth": Where will the Old World break out next? larger scan I bring you the stately matron named Christendom -- returning bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiaochow, Manchuria, South Africa and the Philippines; with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking glass. Written for use at New Year's Eve watch-meetings organized by the Red Cross Society, it became one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti-imperialist literature published during the turn-of-the-century debate about imperialism. The Year That Wont Happen There is so much hype about 1999 being the last year of the century that I think it would be interesting to start a list of some of the things that will not happen in 2000, the real last year of the century. For example, when Whoopi Goldberg said during the 1999 Oscars that it was the last Academy Awards ceremony of the century, she essentially announced that none would be held in the year 2000. As everyone announces their best, worst, and most important people, books, and events of the century, we also begin to realize that nothing important is going to happen in 2000. We might end up being grateful for the Y2K bug -- at least it will give us something to do. Boredom might ease the disappointment of those who have their hearts set on having the Millennium Baby on January 1, 2000. After a few months they'll be able to start over again for January 1, 2001, and have two children a millennium apart. Mark Twain on New Centuries If you'd like to get started reading Twain's "new century" writings in preparation for the end of the century next year, many are collected in the following books: Mark Twain's Fables of Man, ed. John S. Tuckey (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1972). The Bible According to Mark Twain, ed. Howard Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough (Touchstone Books, 1996). Letters from the Earth, ed. Bernard DeVoto (Harperperennial Library, 1991). Jim Zwick