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To: yard_man who wrote (17742)	2/23/2001 3:41:11 PM
From: Anonymous	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21876

Re: The Forbes Article - - That's one girl's opinion. LUCENT is like Clinton. Something easy to write about. Instead of having to go out and work hard and find something for a column they just keep beating on the same old thing. It's an easy way to get something down to fill up the white space and who better to pick on each day than a giant of a company like LUCENT. Woulda .. coulda .. shoulda. Granted, none of this negativity is helping LUCENT. Every negative article that gets its share of the reading public's eye just makes it that much harder to overcome the doubt that has been planted in the minds of investors. I just enjoy writers who make it sound so easy with words. Just have the company roll over and die. Probably the girl that wrote that article has never really had to struggle in her entire life. She's probably a college graduate who didn't have to do that much to earn her degree or degrees. Probably helped along by parents who worked hard to get her through college. Then out she comes into the wonderful world of financial reporting where one just has to look at the balance sheets and exercise the numbers. Blame this guy and that and get your job done. Just what did she write that hasn't been written before by so many others? I've been reading now for more than a year that Nortel has gained this and that and Cisco has gained this and that. I think everyone on this thread has read the same thing by some other author. The golf course is old news, etc., etc., etc. I'd rather see something more positive, just a little flavor of it in her article, however, in this day of in your face and I'm #1, we don't get that kind of writing anymore. I've been a working person all my life, most of it with AT&T and the system (now retired about 6 years) and it pains me to see this company going down the drain because of some very poor decisions made by very well paid top managers. The people working in the trenches are for the most part very good people who have worked hard trying to make the company the best while those at the top skurry around like chickens with their heads off these days.