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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (57541)	12/23/2004 3:28:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<John Browne is either the best charlatan or one of the most enlightened CEOs in the world today.> In my time as an insider [when he was already anointed as the highest of the fliers] and subsequently, I can't think of a single thing of a negative nature. Certainly, since I left and since he has been in charge, BP has done what I consider to be a lot of good things. Hans den Ouden [my boss in the commercial division] said, when I was leaving, that BP was changing on environment and I laughed because it was like watching the process of a Neanderthal turn into a human - it was slower than glacial in my opinion. But I think everything moves in slow motion. For example, CDMA STILL doesn't rule the waves, which is amazing to me, and phragmented photon cyberphones are still wending their way slowly towards the market. Hans and I had had a few discussions on where BP should go with environmental approaches and I'd pushed the line for 3 years. John Browne deserves a LOT of credit as far as I can tell. Mqurice