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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (103241)	6/28/2003 6:21:25 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi DJ - the problem with history is that human beings write it, and human beings have agendas. Some just want to get published and don't care about the truth, e.g., the New York Times saga with Jason whosit. And now the movement to take away the Pulitzer Prize of Walter Duranty, retrospectively, because he lied (about the Ukraininan famine deliberately visited on the Ukrainian people by Stalin)(I agree with this movement). Did Josephus tell the truth, as he saw it, or was he the first century version of a political spin doctor? I wish that history was as objective as science, but it's not. Many of us historians do our best to be objective by our own lights, and then many don't. Social sciences are always far messier than hard sciences.