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To: sea_urchin who wrote (14633)	7/2/2002 6:10:25 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82314

Searle, the problem is that the vast majority of Americans don't have the inclination to sit on boards like this as we do gathering information about divers markets. If they have too much in the wrong stock they are killed. If they diversify into various mutual funds and the markets fall for 3 years running, they are killed. When you or I lose we are more likely to blame ourselves because we know how the game is often rigged and anyway, we have spent enough time observing the lay of the land to benefit from the status quo. Many of these other people are aghast at how these lame analysts suckered them in to the new paradigm and then dropped their prospectuses and ran. They were interviewing a guy on CNBC today who said that when it comes to company reports, Diogenes would need a floodlamp of massive proportions to find an honest man.