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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (11984)	12/4/1999 5:03:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

VERY OFF TOPIC For those of you in the Boston area who like classical music, be sure to call the New England Conservatory of Music to find out when the next piano recital by Esther Budiardjo will take place. Having earned her first two degrees there, she is currently going for her Doctorate. I just returned from a recital of hers at the Kennedy Center and she is unbelievably terrific! She performed for a very critical, relatively informed audience that in the last three years of subscription concerts has never given an immediate and universal standing ovation -- until today when Ms. Budiardjo performed. Even though such an audience would never applaud a performer in between movements of a piece, the audience members couldn't restrain themselves upon hearing an immaculately performed piece by Liszt. You folks in Boston have a treasure in your midst. Don't miss her. --Mike Buckley

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (11984)	12/4/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Yeah, but I remember the 1970's. There have been long periods of years where the market made little progress. In fact, there is a mirroring of forces in the short and long term. If you miss the best dozen or so days a year, you miss much of that years gain. Over the longer term, if you miss a few great market years, you miss much of the gain. Of course this is the best argument for long term investing, but the converse holds true also. Sufficiently bad luck and/or timing can land you in a long fallow period.The long term forces are more predictable since IMHO the great bull market clusters(secular bulls)have been due to technological revolutions which play out over several years. We are now in the third one of this century. When it's over it may be a generation until the next one.