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To: Rollcast... who wrote (6293)	8/29/2003 4:47:05 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793841

I love this. The Dems can't do this. The Union, ya know. US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India Whole world's gone batty - official By Adamson Rust: Wednesday 27 August 2003, 08:49 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in India to raise funds for itself and for its chieftain, George W. Bush. Young people at the call centres are helping robots to phone American citizens to enlist their support and money for the political party, with plans to extend the scheme if they whip up enough donations. There's a high degree of automation involved in the process, according to Indian newspaper the Business Standard, which says that HCL Eserve is handling the business for the party. India is the biggest democracy in the world, and has stayed that way since it threw off the yoke of the British Raj in 1947, courtesy of the Labour Party. The magazine claims that "human intervention" is limited because of an integrated voice recording technology which picks up on clues from people that pick up the phone. We do hope and trust here at the INQUIRER that the irony of underpaid people in Harayana helping robots to call possibly out of work Americans because of a widespread policy of corporate outsourcing is not lost on our readers. µ L'INQ Gurgaon Business Standard theinquirer.net

To: Rollcast... who wrote (6293)	8/29/2003 7:46:27 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793841

THE "OUI" INTERVIEW On page four, Arnold describes "psychological warfare" at its best: What I do is make [other bodybuilders] feel great. I tell a guy that he's never looked better, that he looks brilliant, fantastic. "Your deltoids! And how did you get the tan and the proportion? I'm positive that you'll place; you'll beat Frank; I think you'll even beat Corney. You can easily beat this guy and that guy. I'm certain you'll go all the way -- to second place." [...] If we were going through the compulsory poses -- a double-biceps pose, say -- I'd just turn to the guy next to me and say, "What a shame, what a disadvantage for you," or I'd psych him in reverse by saying that the disadvantage was mine, that he was definitely going to be the one to win. Once, I even sent a guy off-stage. He was enormous, really fantastic, and the audience was screaming for both of us, so you knew it was going to be close. After about 15 minutes of posing, I told him I thought I'd had enough and that we ought to quit, just walk off. He agreed, turned around and left and I just stayed on. The audience immediately turned against him and I won -- my first Mr. Olympia title, in 1970. If I were Cruz Bustamante, I'd be focusing more on this passage than on the salacious ones.