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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (7121)	9/27/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

I have some friends who have been in Globalstar from the beginning. I think I will advise them to get out now at a profit. Q is doing so well that I don't think bad news on Globalstar will hurt them much, but the future is looking a lot dimmer for Globalstar than it did two years ago.

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (7121)	9/27/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

<<Perhaps you will so kind to outline the accomplishments of Thucididies and explain why you want to share his name.>> Oh, that's an easy one, so I won't wait for Chaz. Thucydides was the greatest historian ever. period. bar none. That's kind of a bold claim, especially since he was only the second in the business (a generation after Herodotus), but it's certainly defensible. His "History of the Peloponnesian War," written in the late 5th century BC, remains among the two or three indispensable texts for serious students of war, politics and international relations. The definitive scholarly edition/translation is Robert B. Strassler, ed., "The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War" (New York: Free Press, 1996), but the Penguin Classics version reads better and is what I would recommend to non-classicists. tekboy PS to give you a sense of the man and his methods, here's a passage from the introduction: "With regard to my factual reporting of the events of the war I have made it a principle not to write down the first story that came my way, and not even to be guided by my own general impressions; either I was present myself at the events which I have described or else I heard of them from eye-witnesses whose reports I have checked with as much thoroughness as possible. Not that even so the truth was easy to discover: different eye-witnesses give different accounts of the same events, speaking out of partiality for one side or the other or else from imperfect memories. And it may well be that my history will seem less easy to read because of the absence in it of a romantic element. It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and which (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future. My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever." And the son-of-a-bitch made good on the call, too.