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To: John Carragher who wrote (3192)	8/21/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7342

John, if you recall, the point behind the NY Times article was that CIEN misrepresented its position by a series of omissions from the registration documents. That creates some major problems in evaluating the company's total position because to a large degree these deals are based on trust. My guess is that some institutional investors called Birck and said enough is enough. TTFN, CTC

To: John Carragher who wrote (3192)	8/21/1998 2:16:00 PM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7342

Boo Hoo. Lump of coal in my stocking. I have CIEN at 46 but I have much,much more TLAB that I inherited via CCSC. That looks just fine this moment. Jeeze, what a noose CIEN seemed to be on TLABs back. How could you know, how could you know. I really feel that there is a lot more to this CIEN, TLAB, ATT, and LU thing than meets the eye. I suspect LU plays dirty pool-- but that is the way it is. If you can't beat em honestly, screw em anyway you can