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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (131617)	10/29/2001 1:47:37 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 436258

How funny Haim. The Onion just published essentially the same story. theonion.com Privliged Children of Millionaires Square Off on World Stage Well, they missed the part about the huge tax give away to the nations wealthiest, but yeah, it's the same story.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (131617)	10/29/2001 2:08:26 PM
From: Tom Smith	Respond to of 436258

Socialization of risk, privatization of profits.....you would think this war is being run by a bunch of bankers....hey, wait a minute! <NG>

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (131617)	10/29/2001 2:17:17 PM
From: Lucretius	Respond to of 436258

what a load of sh*t

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (131617)	10/29/2001 2:54:50 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Are you sure that Molly Ivins didn't write that? Or maybe it was Jim Hightower. All of their hackneyed metaphors are working overtime in this piece. There's no better substitute for actual thinking than a bit of indiscriminate derogation of "many-headed corporate hydra[e]", which, redundancy aside, hardly seems relevant. If a corporate entity has one of its heads cut off, do two grow in its place? Later they speak of another "well-connected corporate hydra...spreading its tentacles". Tentacles? A hydra has the body of a hound... do they mean paws? "The fire next time"- have even half of the writers who use that phrase ever read James Baldwin?