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To: greenspirit who wrote (9509)	9/26/2003 6:35:04 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793755

Russia is suffering They seem to have become a third world slum that produces gangsters as immigrants for us. What a comedown. Their Military is a joke. We now realize that they were a "bumbling bunch with Nukes" from the start. The CIA really blew it with the estimates on them.

To: greenspirit who wrote (9509)	9/26/2003 7:05:35 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793755

A gossip item from the SF Chronicle. This is the kind of thing I have heard about. If it breaks in say, Drudge, a couple of days before the election, it could kill him. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ARNIE DESPERATE TO TERMINATE NUDE PICS Political wannabe Arnold Schwarzenegger is desperate to suppress potentially damaging erotic pictures of him taken by famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The Republican California gubernatorial candidate posed for the nude shots when he was a struggling actor, but now fears the images will damage his political aspirations. Mapplethorpe, who died in 1989, was well-known and respected for his photography on sexual and gay themes, but Arnie fears the artist's credibility won't save him from being smeared if the pictures -- currently hidden at Mapplethorpe's New York estate -- are made public. A source close to the 56-year-old says, "They're worried sick that Arnie's past is going to come back to haunt him. "Arnie never realized all those years ago that the pictures might damage him. He just thought that posing for artistic pictures taken by a respected photographer would help boost his career. "Now they might destrohttp://www.sfgate.com/columnists/dailydish/y his political ambitions."