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To: Sam who wrote (1694)	5/26/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Respond to of 3536

<g> I may live in Greenwich but my middle class roots are in Brooklyn. Henry

To: Sam who wrote (1694)	5/29/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Frodo Baxter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3536

>During the first 4 or 5 months of the existence of the Asian Thread when we were spending a LOT of time both trying to diagnose the roots of and find possible solutions to the Asian crisis, I repeated that theme so often that I was beginning to embarass even myself before more or less toning it down. That's a nice thought, coming from residual Marxism, but empirically incorrect. S. Korea and especially Thailand have recovered without meaningful change in the composition of their middle classes. You must not have read the PJ O'Rourke book carefully enough...