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To: Gottfried who wrote (34914)	4/19/2000 12:55:00 PM
From: Dr. Mitchell R. White	Respond to of 70976

hubris in classical Greek ethical and religious thought, overweening presumption suggesting impious disregard of the limits governing human action in an orderly universe. It is the sin to which the great and gifted are most susceptible, and in Greek tragedy it is usually the hero's tragic flaw.... A fine quotation, but of course, nobody here can be accused of this, right? After all, we're talking financial markets, not any orderly universe. =8-> But yes, it's popular to believe that hubris only happens to the other management team, not US, for crying out loud, we're better than that. (Oh, the examples I could quote from some of MY previous employers. I weep for hubris ignored.) Mitch