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To: LindyBill who wrote (18896)	12/6/2003 1:07:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793622

<China will never agree to full independence for Taiwan> Never is a very long time Lindy. My guess is that such discussions will become irrelevant as the surge of cyberspace and the changes in the human condition accelerate making all sorts of 20th century issues irrelevant. Full independence has no meaning these days. China, Albania and North Korea tried writing their own history for a few decades. The world is so interlinked, integrated and tied up that independence is fine in theory, but trivial in practise. The process is accelerating. At the beginning of the 20th century, when rural agricultural ways of life dominated the planet and the industrial revolution was only decades old and still non-existent in large parts of the world, independence was sort of possible. Now it's a very limited concept. If Taiwan choose independence, it will involve increasingly close ties to China, so it'll really be mostly talk and a bit of chest puffing by some politicians. The money, goods, services and people will be flooding across the border. Mqurice

To: LindyBill who wrote (18896)	12/7/2003 3:33:23 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793622

This is the cover for BusinessWeek this week: Boeing: What Really Happened Flawed strategy. Lax controls. A weak board. Personal shortcomings. CEO Phil Condit lasted longer than he should have [Note: When this hits the newstands, watch out...there are, and will be, all sorts of fingers being pointed in several places...] businessweek.com The really surprising thing about Philip M. Condit's resignation as chairman and chief executive officer of Boeing Co. (BA ) was not that his seven-year tenure ended so abruptly on Dec. 1, but that it lasted so long. Recent allegations of questionable conduct by a Boeing executive involved in negotiating an $18 billion deal with the Pentagon was only the latest mishap in a series of ethical lapses and managerial blunders that marred Condit's tumultuous reign from the start. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>cont' with link above