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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (5385)	12/18/1997 4:32:00 PM
From: BlueCrab	Respond to of 71178

Ah, you ain't the real Santa. The real Santa don't wear Hawaiian shirts with muu-muus, OOs and Doc Marten boots. But please leave the bear. We need something for Christmas dinner. Yer cookies are at the second-hand food store; just ring the bell and tell 'em "jp sent me..."

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (5385)	12/18/1997 4:44:00 PM
From: BlueCrab	Respond to of 71178

Jfred, waht Whine goes well with Bear? Or should I maybe drag Alex and Zin over? After today's close, I'm thinking a nice Panama red would be perfect.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (5385)	12/18/1997 5:34:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 71178

Awwwww. Thought maybe you'd brought us some nice CYTO, or SFAM. If we promise to be GOOD??? Could we have a little INTC at 40?

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (5385)	12/19/1997 12:54:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You're in luck, dear Santa. I have some lovely sluglike logrolls just for you, colorfully decorated in blood and the grass I pulled up while lying on the ground sobbing, and elegantly wrapped in VSNR and CYTO stock certificates. But keep your damn bear.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (5385)	12/20/1997 10:38:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

A book for you under the tree, Freddy. American Scripture: Making of the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier, an MIT History professor... From one of today's foremost authorities on the era of the American Revolution, the most important book on the Declaration of Independence since Carl Becker's classic study published seventy-five years ago. Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be--from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever had conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's Common Sense, which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions--most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries--that explained, advocated, and justified independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do--by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ--we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power. (My emphasis--I thought that would get your dander up)