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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (4599)	11/23/1997 9:14:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I leave for a weekend and you let that damn dog in again. What is it with you and that dog? I hope he's been dipped and bathed. There was a story in the Richmond paper yesterday about the New Jersey affirmative action case that the plaintiff was trying to get before the Supreme Court. In discussing the merits of the case, it was pointed out that the black woman holds a Master's Degree, while the fired white woman did not, although she had two more years teaching experience. The case has been settled with a large monetary amount funded by a coalition of civil rights organizations because they feared that aff. action would be further gutted if it went to the current Court. The first woman was quoted as saying (not exact as this is from my notoriously poor memory), "An advanced degree don't get you nothing." I just found this a really provocative quote.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (4599)	11/23/1997 4:13:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

...Unbekownst to Alexa, Bilbo lurked nearby, drooling with pleasure. God she looked magnificent chasing the tom, assault rifle in one hand and a sweet little basket of strawberries in the other! He would offer his help, but not just yet. He lifted a stubby leg and released a golden stream onto a tomato plant. Too late for tomatoes now anyway, he reflected, and he didn't really like them to begin with. His muscles tensed as the tom, taking a strawberry on his pink and black nose, hissed viciously. Alexa was stalking now, her skin burnished with slight sheen of sweat, her long black hair swinging ever so slightly in the breeze. He remembered other times, times they'd played together on her silken coverlet when Brandon was at work and the children napping...