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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (718)	10/26/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

That is true, and relevant. It nevertheless deserves a high degree of respect, and has not been repudiated by any Pontiff....

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (718)	10/26/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3246

I will reiterate my top thirty, and try to add to the list: 1. Winston Churchill 2. Franklin Roosevelt 3. Dwight Eisenhower 4. Chester Nimitz 5. Douglas MacArthur 6. William Halsey 7. George Marshall 8. Harry Truman 9. Ronald Reagan 10. Margaret Thatcher 11. Lech Walesa 12. John Paul II 13. Mikhail Gorbachev 14. Boris Yeltsin 15. Alexander Solzhenitsyn 16. Andrei Sakharov 17. Vaclav Havel 18. Konrad Adenauer 19. Charles DeGaulle 20. Helmut Kohl 21. George Bush 22. John XXIII 23. Mohandas Gandhi 24. Martin Luther King 25. Kemal Ataturk 26. George Orwell 27. Fred Hayek 28. Milton Friedman 29. Henry Ford 30. The Wright Brothers (in tandem) 31. Marconi/Tesla (acknowledging the dispute) 32. Vladimir Zworkin/Philo Farnsworth (both contributed crucially to television) 33. George Stibitz (more or less the father of the computer) 34. Marie and Pierre Curie (in tandem) 35. Albert Einstein 36. Niels Bohr 37. Werner Heisenberg 38. Erwin Schroedinger 39. Enrico Fermi 40. Watson & Crick (in tandem) 41. Bardeen/Shockley/Brattain (the transistor) 42. Hoff/Mazor/Faggin (the microprocessor)