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To: KLP who wrote (254442)	6/14/2008 1:57:03 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793691

So does that mean that 500 yr floods, earthquakes, escaped prisoners, bad crop yrs, ect are something new? Doesn't sound like much has changed. gg Obama to the rescue!

To: KLP who wrote (254442)	6/14/2008 3:24:02 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793691

Missed the article about the 1780 shpwreck-------find that of interest. Suggestion, go through the list and strike out those things you or we cannot affect. Amazingly the list gets smaller. mj

To: KLP who wrote (254442)	6/14/2008 4:08:36 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793691

A few days ago I ran into a movie based on Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". If there are any Russian speakers around here, it's a real treat. There are 10 parts, and each part is divided into 5 episodes. Stick to the version which mentions "English subtitles". The book is excellent, couldn't recommend it more - and this show is a very close and respectful rendition. Among (many) other things it offers a fascinating view of life in the 1920's - 30's Soviet Russia. Part one, the beginning, where Messir Woland enters the lives of two writers: youtube.com Take a look, for example, at the episode where Margarita turns into a witch and is getting ready to go to the Satan's ball, where she will be reunited with her lover, The Master, who wrote a novel about Pontius Pilate (which in the book and in the show is a novel within a novel). youtube.com Have fun! Movies like this are one of the intangible benefits of the departure of Communism.