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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (524)	11/20/2003 7:38:30 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 3079

Lizzie, Respectfully, I disagree with you apologia for the business environment. I feel that you are very lucky indeed to have been able to secure employment in the most vibrant, creative and exciting part of the business world. However, your prism in Silicone Valley hardly reflects upon the chicanery, skimming, stock manipulation and multiple frauds that recently were and still are occurring all around the high tech growth engine. There was an interesting item today about who is going to be Time Magazine's Man of the Year. The prohibitive favorite, according to one wag, is Dick Cheney, because he so perfectly embodies the "age of plutocracy". There are, quite simply, too many instances of malfeasance and corrupt practices among a number of disparate business sectors for me to be able to accept your analysis that we are suffering from only a few rotten apples in the business world. I find myself in agreement with Gore Vidal, Paul Krugman, Ralph Nader, Joe Stiglitz, William Greider, Felix Rohatyn and others who are older than you and have a better grasp of the deterioration of the business climate to the point where what was standard business ethics and fair dealing prior to the Reagan era is now viewed by Wall Street and the grasping CEO class as mere relics of a more naive age, and as impediments to satisfying their greed.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (524)	11/20/2003 8:00:38 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA? YOU BET From another thread: Check out the brit cover!!! I want a poster.... a copy of Krugman’s latest book in one of the local bookstores yesterday and was struck by its cover art. The cover art for the non-US or Commonwealth version of the book is very different from the unremarkable text that adorns the US version. Click here to see the version that retails at Amazon in the UK images-eu.amazon.com and now compare it to the cover from Amazon’s US site, images.amazon.com wonder if they sell POSTERS of the UK version/???? Courtesy of Chris Considine. Thanks!