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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (47449)	5/31/2001 12:32:44 AM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 70976

I don't see how tax season would work as an explanation. ALL of the April selling was after the 16th. In fact there was not one sale prior to the 26th. This wave of selling took place right after the 50% runup in stock price that took place in the first half of April. In the second half of April 2000, the stock was near its all time high, so if my theory is correct that they know when their stock is richly valued, then I would expect to see robust sales then as well. If you want to exclude sales by non-executives, be my guest. Do you really think that's going to change the results?