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To: lee kramer who wrote (98635)	5/20/2000 9:40:00 AM
From: kendall harmon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

Lee, here's a surprise for you, Alan Abelson sounds happy in this weekend's Barrons. I know you are stunned, just stunned. <<Mary Meeker, where are you when we need you? Mary, of course, and not that silly fellow who's running for President, invented the Internet. And for her noble efforts in converting Wall Street's heathen multitudes into reverent believers, she was anointed Queen of the 'Net by this magazine. Ah, those were the days -- and not so long ago -- when the slightest wave of her bejeweled scepter sent a newly hatched online fledgling soaring heavenward, smartly decked out in a Morgan Stanley T-shirt and borne aloft on the mad exuberance of the speculative masses. Mary's magic was most manifest in extraordinary visionary powers that enabled her to part the veil of time and reveal to the faithful the glorious future, near and distant, of each and every one of her favorites. No less a personage than Mr. Market himself seemed bewitched and rushed to affirm her prophecies. But suddenly the spell was shattered. By the score, those cyber rockets crashed and burned. And despite brave intermittent attempts to get them up and flying again, they no sooner lifted their patched-up and horribly battered hulks off the ground than they went into sickening free fall....>> Schadenfreude city