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To: epicure who wrote (57276)	10/5/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

>>a Mark Twain freak I spent one extended vacation in the West tracing Twain's travels, especially through the SF - Mother Lode area. What do you think of the politically correct crowd trying to ban some of his books as racist? The books are the opposite of course.

To: epicure who wrote (57276)	10/5/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Good grief, I take the radical step of working for a few days, and come back to several hundred messages arguing over a historical footnote. Don't you think it odd that the same people who maintain that the effect of Reagan's policies on the US economy could not be felt until four years or more after his departure - because as we all know, ships of state do not change course overnight - believe that those same policies had such an immediately perceptible effect on the economy of the Soviet Union? I think both cycles began far before Reagan took office, and I don't think he - or any other US leader - deserves any special credit for them. My own personal aversion to Reagan, to beat a dead horse, is that the simple-minded worldview he and many of his advisors held allowed some extremely unsavory people in the developing world to play him like a stringed instrument. The same man who was such iron in the face of Gorbachev (who brought nothing to the table, and knew it) was silly putty before Marcos, Pinochet, etc. A lot of people are still paying the price, though we couldn't care less, because we can't see them until they start killing each other on TV. Back to work now. Though I still owe Nihil some grubbing in the archives. I should stay away from this place.