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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (19629)	2/22/2002 6:35:29 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Perhaps this will be more to your liking: sf.indymedia.org

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (19629)	2/22/2002 11:15:21 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thinking about the end of empires before they end is a time honored tradition. See Gibbon's Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - he was drawn to the topic because he wondered about the fate of the British Empire. I'd also recommend Henry Adam's Autobiography - Adams became a history professor specializing in medieval history for essentially the same reason - the desire to understand the natural history of empires. Personally, my hopes were set on the American empire transmogrifying into something north and south in the Americas. I think Latin America deserves more capital expenditure that it's gotten. And Bush was (and is) the president to do it. But that has been back-burnered.