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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44782)	10/10/2003 3:24:02 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne said, "A few weeks ago an airman stationed in Afghanistan wrote me describing the bleak living conditions for U.S. service personnel serving there, asking if we could send anything that would improve their quality of life. We wrote back, suggesting he poll his colleagues and place a $50,000 order 'on the house.' They did: oddly, the order was for 100 portable DVD players and three copies each of every action movie I'd ever seen.