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To: gamesmistress who wrote (33240)	3/9/2004 8:24:01 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793912

I'll have to see if I can find it As the author (Michael Knox Beran) says, human nature can't "forbear peeping into the closets of the great." We certainly live that out in our modern day politics as well, spending a great deal of time looking for the flaws in our politicians' often all too human characters, rather than at their ability to be statesmen, to have ideals for the country's future and the commitment and strength to go after them. THen, after we have confused our intimate knowledge of their private lives with a knowledge of the true issues and their beliefs, we whine how there are no statesmen left. Beran puts this well, adding this caveat to our wandering around people's private rooms: If we end up becoming a nation of valets, so also we will be a nation destitute of heroes. Stripped of our teachers, we will be left with nothing more than an "odor of phrases." My own caveat: Make sure you have a dictionary next to you when you read it. The author has one heck of a vocabulary.