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To: tekboy who wrote (60703)	12/9/2002 12:28:45 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

off to China for 10 days, Hey, that will give you plenty of time to get enough material to write a major book on it. And go on PBS when you get back and pontificate. I was just reading a review of Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, and being right is not a requirement, according to him. >>>>Residual DDT in the environment will reduce Americans' average life expectancy by ten years! (Paul Ehrlich in 1970.) Time is on the side of the Soviet Union in its struggle with the West! If there is any hope for us, it lies in the Third World! (Richard Rorty in the 1980s.) The Soviet Union has already won in Afghanistan! (Edward Luttwak in 1983.) The United States is doomed in its war against Saddam Hussein (Robert Fisk in 1991.) The United States is doomed in its war in Afghanistan! (Robert Fisk in 2002.) Japan is destined to become the world?s economic superpower, and will trample United States in the coming century! (Lester Thurow almost any time). And just as Madame Omniscia of the Weekly World News missed Princess Diana's car crash, the expert Sovietologists missed the fall of the Soviet State.<<<< aldaily.com