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From: ytay@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu (AUS:TAY,YIAN)
Subject: Re: Loving Malaysian Prince: New Developments
Followup-To: soc.culture.asean
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Oklahoma - University Computing Services
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:29:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.144627.24457@natinst.com>, fellow@natinst.com (Osbert Tan) writes...
>In article <ystan.712406889@fawlty10.eng.monash.edu.au>, ystan@fawlty10.eng.monash.edu.au (Mr YS Tan) writes:
>> 
>> 	From Encik Othman's posting, I would think he's a Singaporean ...
>>

No,he is definitely not a Singaporean.  In fact, it kind of makes me wonder
why is he staying in a country he hated so much when he has a choice to do
otherwise.  He scorned at the qualities of life that Singapore can offer
and he habored contempt for the country and her people.  
So what is there left for this guy to carrying on staying in such a miserable 
environment? Unless??
If I were him, I will take the first plane out of Singapore and 
goes back to his "so-called" beloved country.

Do you think he is up to no good or is he a spy? He is planning something?
I better remind you Othman, you are staying in the "City of Fear".

Now, Harris Pillay, is going to say this girl is over-sensitive and
over-reacting again.


yian...

Sign, what can I say, I am only a product of the Lee Dynasty..

>Mr Othman is, uh .. how shall I put it, a Malaysian.
> 
>-Osbert
> 
> 
>-- 
>                                     _ _
>---------------------------------ooo--U--ooo------------------------------------
>fellow@cs.utexas.edu  Standard disclaimer applies. My opinions are, simply mine.
>fellow@natinst.com            Down with racism. Down with imperialism.
From: leongaw@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Ak Wing Leong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: Re: Loving Malaysian Prince: New Developments
Date: 30 Jul 92 07:18:23 GMT
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server

No, Reika. Kuala Lumpur has not changed its name to Kuala Trengganu. This
prince is from Trengganu (a state in Malaysia) whose capital is Kuala 
Trengganu. But his children could be born in Kuala Lumpur ( a matter of only
300 miles by car).

There are conflicting news on the custody of the children. The Australian news
gave its version the Family Court gave custody to the mother, while our Malaysian news gave its version that the Trengganu Muslim court gave the custody to the 
father. Anyway an Australian film producer is in Malaysia trying to make a film
out of this daring eposide.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
From: Black_Swan@MTS.RPI.EDU
Subject: NTU posting problems solved
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 16:33:20 EDT
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eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
 
|e> Attention all NTU tin users. You must put a blank line after the header.
|e> This is discover by Mr Toh Guan Ngee.
 
Do you know that this is read the world over? Put your
distribution to local so that only your users read this. It
is a waste of bandwidth considering that news propagate and
are stored in many machines and that many have to pay for the
newsfeed.
 
 
|e> I have told roland about this but he has not done anything yet. 
 
I feel sorry for Roland. He is broadcasting Roland's deficiency
or inefficiency to the whole world. All you know Roland may
be busy with things that are of higher priority or he has
already set aside time to work on this!  You should have put
the period after ``this''.  Give the man a chance!
 
 
Black Swan
Black_Swan@mts.rpi.edu
 
``To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and then call whatever 
  you are hitting the target'' Ashley Brilliant
From: espbl@warwick.ac.uk (FLASH)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Looking for friends from Penang, Malaysia.
Date: 25 Jul 92 01:02:41 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK


Hello netters,

	I am looking for two people who currently study in University of 
Melbourne and University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia. Both of them are 
from Penang, Malaysia.

  	      Name: Mr Swee Keong KANG
	University: University of Melbourne
	    Course: Medicine
	      Year: 2nd year

	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	      Name: Miss Meow Keng KHOR
	University: University of Monash
	    Course: Bachelor of Accounting
	      Year: Final year


	Would appreciate if anybody who know them can send an email to me!

Thanks in advance


Best Regards,

S P Kang  (email: espbl@csv.warwick.ac.uk)
Department of Engineering
Warwick Manufacturing Group
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
England, United Kingdom
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: Official opening of RI (Bishan)
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:28:02 GMT

In article <KYTAN.92Jul21112500@mantra.fia.dmg.ml.com> kytan@mantra.fia.dmg.ml.com (Kok-Yong Tan) writes:

: In article <1992Jul20.094159.2625@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
: 
: {stuff deleted}
: 
: 	   Do you think it is fair to Singapore Malays and Indians; to compete
:    with the best in the world?
: 
: Why not?  If one competes with the best, one has a more effective indicator of
: one's abilities than if one were to compete with the second-raters.
Even if it means that you are not even allow to start competing because you
cannot get in.
	That was the whole point. If you can get in, at least you know where
you stand, but if you are not, how can you improve yourself.

: 

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet

Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
From: tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani)
Subject: Computer Prices in Singapore
Organization: Dept. Of Psychology,  Queen's University,  Kingston
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:31:02 GMT


I have a question regarding PC prices in Singapore. I have been 
away for a couple of years and from my experience Singapore
is one of the cheapest places to purchase a PC-clone. But,
I have also noticed that prices here in Canada and the US have 
dropped quite significantly over the last couple of years. Two
years ago the differential was noticeble. Is that the case
today or has the differential narrowed? What would a system with
the following specs cost?
 486/33 Mhz with 4Mb expandle to 32/64 Mb, 200 Meg hard drive
 local video bus with a graphics accelerator, both 1.2 and 1.44
 floppies, monitor not included.

TIA.
-- 

Tarun Kripalani (of Wounded Knee and now Wounded Shoulder)
e-mail:   tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca
Dept. of Psychology, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
From: sbog6936@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bin Ong)
Subject: Re: Social Development Unit (Re: was Sins of Singapore)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:48:32 GMT

ciar04@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:

>In article <2985244@MTS.RPI.EDU>, Black_Swan@MTS.RPI.EDU writes:

>> ......Perhaps someone with statistics on the how children of
>> educated parents do compared to those with undereducated ones can
>> shade some light to the degree of truth.

>I think there was an article in the LINK magazine (official SDU publication)
>by the Chief Statistician Dr Paul Cheung last year concerning this issue (or
>was it the year before).

Think you could find that article and post it sometime? It should prove
interesting. But, hey, my good ol' stas prof always says: Stats you
read or see is what the Statistician wants you to read... ;-). Though I'm
sure most netters know that already (that's why I'm usually skeptical
with stats released by govt agencies).

>Incidentally, I read in one of the statistics newsgroups that Mendel's
>statistical results are not exactly accurate.

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Bin Ong

Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
From: pcteoh00@nx33.mik.uky.edu (Pek Chan Teoh)
Subject: looking for Malaysian who is studying at Tai Da(Nationla Uni. of 
    Taiwan)
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:00:13 GMT

Hi
	Can someone out there please help me to locate Malaysians who are  
studying at Tai Da (National University of Taiwan)? E-mail address of them  
will be very find. Thanks in advance. 

- TEOH


E-mail address
	pcteoh00@mik.uky.edu
or	pcteoh00@ukpr.uky.edu
From: ciar04@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: Social Development Unit (Re : was Sins of Singapore)
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:11:06 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

In article <1992Jul22.021451.3741@csar.uucp>, harish@csar.uucp (Harish Pillay) writes:> sbog6936@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bin Ong) writes:

> Apologies for not making the above clear.  The Visa card scheme is for people 
> who are Raffles alumni.  Everytime a person uses the card, Standard Chartered
> gives 1% (I think) of what was spent to a fund set aside for scholarships.
> That way, the alumni can continue contributing to the school long after 
> leaving school.  I think this is a neat idea that should be explored by 
> other schools. 

I think that the 1% of the amount spent will go into the scholarship fund is
incorrect.  This is because the bank charges the retailer (i.e. a discount)
between 1.5% to 3%.  For example, when UOB launched their Visa card, in
order to get their merchants (term used in the credit card business to mean
retailers that accept credit card and sell at a discount to the bank), a
figure of about 1.6-1.8% were charged.  A similar cost structure was introduced
by DBS when they launched their Visa cards.  Incidentally, American Express
charges the highest discount (as much as 6% on the transaction).

Regards.

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From: speah@thor.cf.ac.uk (Mr A B Hassan 92)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Books on GA
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:51:12 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway


 Could anybody from Singapore find me the price of the following
books in Singapore.


1. Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
   by David E. Goldberg

2. Design of Inspection Systems by Tzvi Raz

Thanks for any pointer in advance.
From: SSR48327@VAX1.UTULSA.EDU (Syed Shibli)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: Social Development Unit (Re : was Sins of Singapore)
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:36:49 GMT
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ciar04@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:


>figure of about 1.6-1.8% were charged.  A similar cost structure was introduced
>by DBS when they launched their Visa cards.  Incidentally, American Express
>charges the highest discount (as much as 6% on the transaction).

  American Express claims their cardholders charge more, hence the
  higher rates merchants need to pay. Several shops in the States
  have boycotted the card to protest the exorbitant fees. American
  Express is not listening, however.

-- 
                                              --Syed Shibli
                                                ssr48327@vax1.utulsa.edu
                                                +1 918 631 3257
Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish
From: bzfstoer@ZIB-Berlin.DE (Mechthild Stoer)
Subject: Re: Komuna
Reply-To: bzfstoer@ZIB-Berlin.DE
Organization: Konrad Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:50:57 GMT

Co to jest nomenklatura, komuchy, ...?
Dla jednich sa to przestepcy, dla innych karierysci.
Czy wszyscy karierysci sa przestepcami,
czy w ogole mowimy o tych samych ludziach?
Moze jedni maja na mysli urzednikow SB, a inni czlonkow Partii?

Ja tez nie rozumiem, dlaczego to ma byc tak trudno z prawem dzialajacym wstecz.
Czy nie mozna po prostu definiowac,
ze wszyscy czlonkowie SB i ich aktywni wspolpracownicy
nie powinni byc poslami i urzednikami panstwa,
tak jak w b. NRD?
Bo co do przestepczosci tej organizacji (SB) nie ma chyba watpliwosci.
Co tu jest tak trudno?
Czy nie ma dowodow (tj. teczek), czy oni jeszcze sa grozni, 
czy SB jest nadal legalna organizacja,
czy spoleczenstwo albo Sejm nie moze sie na to zgodzic?

Albo majatki zabrane przez komunistow.
Czy nie mozna tez definiowac,
ze majatki zabrane w tym a tamtym okresie nalezy wrocic dawnym wlascicielom?
Przeciez jest to mozliwe w demokratycznych Niemczech,
dlaczego nie w demokratycznej Polsce?
Brak pieniedzy, brak woli?
Jesli Sejm scisle definiuje komu nalezy sie wrocic majatek, 
albo kogo odszkodowac, to nie widze moralnych trudnosci,
tylko fiskalnych (skad wziac odszkodowania).
Przeciez nie chodzi tu o zemste, rownanie krzywd, komu "zabrac" majatek,
tylko komu "wrocic" majatek.
Albo jest to tak, ze wedlug obowiazujacego prawa 
terazniejszymi wlascicielami takich majatek sa starzy komunisci (tj. osoby)
w Niemczech zas jest to Panstwo?
W takim przypadku, nie wiem...

A przeciwko zwyklym bylym czlonkom Partii nie widze powaznych oskarzen
oprocz bardzo ogolnych (karierysci, bezszkieletowosc) ktore pasuja
do prawie wszystkich ludzi.

Jesli moje pytanie sa glupie, to prosze mi to wytlumaczyc.

Mechthild Stoer


Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish
From: s1137020@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Mariusz Prokopczyk)
Subject: Re: Komuna
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:40:52 GMT

In article <84570@netnews.upenn.edu>
kkniaz@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Krzysztof W. Kniaz) writes:
>.........
>Wytlumaczenia typu: rzad chcial ,ale nie mogl bo nie bylo pieniedzy,
>sa po pierwsze smieszne, po drugie obosieczne bo skad w takim razie poprzednie
>ekipy mialy wytrzasnac gotowke na sciganie aferzystow? Zauwaz, ze czesty
>argument: KLD i UD tolerowaly przestepstwa gospodarcze, bo ciagnely
>z nich korzysci, wydaje sie wtedy mniej przekonywujacy....
>
>I wreszcie dyskusja o wyzszosci UD nad PC/ZChN/OlszEwskim i vice versa:
>again pytanie: kto zaczal? kto wygrazal i wymyslal od neo-komuny,
>kto wywlekal Szechterow?
>Naturalnie obecnie wszyscy sa rowno wymazani blotem i wszyscy nim obficie
>ciskaja, warto jednak pamietac, kto rzucil pierwsza grude....
>
>Pozdrawiam.
>
>Krzysztof Kniaz, University of Pennsylvania | If you can't learn

Do tych ciekawych spostrzezen ja bym tylko dorzucil: Jeszcze bardziej
warte zapamietania bedzie - kto pierwszy sie opamieta i przestanie rzucac.
Mam nadzieje ze nie bedzie potrzeba do tego rozlewu krwi?

pozdrowienia

Mariusz
From: osinski@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Marek Osinski)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish
Subject: Re: Czy nie dosc ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:16:42 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Jul29.204543.14078@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> jjt@aristotle.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jack Tuszynski) writes:
>W odpowiedzi na to co osiol sie pyta.  Kto sie zgadza z tym ze nie powinno
>byc polaczenie na sieci do tego komunistycznego raju naszego.  Bylo to na
>PLEARN-L.  Niestety to Amerykanie sie pytali jak to mozna?  

Otoz to, Jacku, teraz mowisz, ze na PLEARN-L, a nie na s.c.p., jak to 
twierdziles przedtem. 
>
>Natomiast, widzialem w jednym z Osinskiego listach na sieci ze jego rodzina
>byla partyjna.  To coz to mozna sie dziwic ze bedziesz bronic swoja
>skure na sieci.  Wszytko co ty powiesz na ten temat dalej bedzie w swojej
>samej obronie.

Ha, to ci nowina! A moze jednak Ci sie cos przysnilo? Sprawdz sobie ten
list raz jeszcze, gdzies taka bzdure wyczytal?

Marek Osinski
Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish
From: krzystek@milton.u.washington.edu (Jerzy Krzystek)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish
Subject: Prywata no.2
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:58:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Jul31.015821.18417
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Jeszcze raz przepraszam za naduzycie s.c.p.

Bardzo prosze Vladka Komorka o ponowienie kontaktu i podanie swego
adresu pocztowego lub/i numeru telefonu, poniewaz *zaden* z jego
adresow e-mailowych ode mnie nie dziala.

Jurek Krzystek
From: jsw@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Jacek Walicki)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:56:39 GMT
Subject: Konwicki's "Bohin Manor"
Organization: 40N31m31s_105W0m43s
Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish


Not much is happening in Polish literature these days. The bookstores
are full of translations - of Ludlum, Mitchener and alike. It almost
seems that the only good Polish writer who still trudges forward is 
Tadeusz Konwicki. 
His "Bohin" has been just translated to English. Below you will find 
a review of it from The Economist.

jsw.


	---------
<The Economist, 18 July 1992>

Baltic parable

	LITHUANIA is a small country of three languages and
cultures-Lithuanian itself, Polish, and Russian, the language of the
eternal oppressor.The enmity between Lithuanians, both Lithuanian -
and Polish-speaking, and the Russians has a long history, and
Lithuania was the first of the Baltic states to declare its
independence from the Soviet Union. Tadeusz Konwicki puts all these
themes in their proper historical context in a novel ("Bohin Manor".
Faber&Faber; 240 pages;$14.99. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $19.95) set in
rural Lithuania a dozen or so years after the failed uprising of 1863.
The story has a superficial simplicity but, as in Chekhov, the
smallest and most inconsequential of details proves to be of great
significance.
	Its central character, Helena Konwicka, is the daughter of a
Lithuanian yeoman whose involvement in the failed uprising has caused
him to be deprived of his lands and manor house. Helena is a hopeless,
rudderless, unmarried young woman of 30 who feels oppressed by her
circumstances. She is betrothed to an ageing aristocrat whom she
despises for his girlish beauty and selfindulgence. When a wandering
Jew, with a shock of red hair, erupts into her rural isolation, she
recoils with horror. But she is also driven towards him, fascinated
by impulses that seem irrational.
	There is suspicion everywhere: the Russian-speaking chief of
police, for example, who dashes about sniffing out subversive
elements-among whom, of course, is that wandering Jew. Even the old
parish priest, once a seemingly harmless collector of Belorussian folk
songs, is under surveillance. And all this turbulent inactivity,
including the heart-searching by Helena, goes on in the strange
backwoods of 19th-century Lithuania, all marsh and endless forest,
with an atmosphere of foreboding and superstition.
	The book is in part a political parable. The reader's thoughts
are pitched in this direction by the voice of the narrator who is
telling the story of Helena. it is his own grandmother whom he is
writing about. He is reaching back to her, seeking clues to the
identity of a woman he never knew. And suddenly, by the use of that
small tactic, past becomes present in the reader's mind: those
tensions associated with the rise of national feelings; the voice of
that gruff Russian police chief; and the terrible sense of oppression
when no one feels free, nothing seems possible-and the heat of summer
conspires to weigh down like an iron upon the reader's forehead.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish
From: osinski@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Marek Osinski)
Subject: Re: Gruba kreska
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 01:30:42 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <45960182@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> jsw@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Jacek Walicki) przypomina geneze "grubej kreski":
>
>Tak pisze o tym Kuron (w swojej "zupie..."):
>
> "Z nomenklatura laczy sie historia "grubej kreski" Mazowieckiego.
> Pomysl przeciwnikow Mazowieckiego, skojarzenia "grubej kreski" z
> nomenklatura, trzeba uznac za arcymistrzostwo tzw. czarnej propagandy.
> Otoz "gruba kreska" nie ma zadnego zwiazku z nomenklatura. Mazowiecki
> powiedzial o niej w tym sensie: "zastajemy kraj zrujnowany, odkreslamy
> gruba kreska przeszlosc - bedziemy odpowiedzialni za to, co jest od tej
> kreski". Pomysl propagandzistow obozu przeciwnikow Mazowieckiego, ze te
> slowa - "gruba kreska", skojarzy sie z rzekomym tolerowaniem
> nomenklatury, tak sie przyjal, ze w gruncie rzeczy wierza w to teraz
> wszyscy. Moze nawet sam Mazowiecki. [..]"
>
Niestety, Mazowiecki chyba nie zdawal sobie z tego sprawy, ze aby moc
ponosic odpowiedzialnosc tylko za to, co bylo od tej kreski, powinno
nastapic dokladne rozliczenie poprzedniego rzadu. Niestety, nie
uczyniono tego, robiac z "grubej kreski" (w rozumieniu tak ekonomicznym,
jak i politycznym) pusty termin. Aby tylko zasygnalizowac ten problem,
zacytuje ponizszy fragment z ksiazki "Va Bank i FOZZ" (str. 189):

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Bez remanentu

Byc moze wiec w "Magdalenkach" o pieniadzach nie bylo mowy. Tadeusz
Mazowiecki przejal ster rzadow bez sprawdzenia stanu panstwowej kasy,
bez remanentu. To samo uczynil jego znakomity sukcesor Jan Krzysztof
Bielecki. Na niestosownosc tego rodzaju "przejecia" nie zwrocil im
uwagi nowo odkryty geniusz finansowy Rzeczypospolitej, Leszek
Balcerowicz, ulubieniec salonow finansowych swiata. Za to natychmiast
przystapil on do uzdrawiania finansow Polski i wprowadzania swojej
genialnej reformy.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Marek Osinski
From: bill@AEC.MsState.Edu (bill balcerzak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.polish
Subject: Thanks
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:42:18 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University, Department of Agricultural Economics:  Geographic Information Systems

And now for something completely different...

A couple of weeks ago I posted a message asking about the correct 
pronunciation of my surname (Balcerzak).  I received numerous 
responses and wanted to thank everyone for their help.  It may have
seemed like a trivial request to many of you but to me it was very 
important.  It's an odd feeling having a name of which you're not 
sure of the original pronunciation.  You have helped me to recapture
a bit of my heritage.  I tried to respond to all via email.  Forgive
me if I left anyone out.  My sendmail program hasn't feeling well so
messages bounced to:

Marek Sieranski         msi@ampex.com 
Andrzej A. Borowiec     anton@gagme.chi.il.us

The other who replied were:

Krzysztof               krzys@icase.icase.edu
Marek Michalewicz       marek@mel.dit.csiro.au
Jeremy Konopka          konopkjt@mercury.cs.uregina.ca
Janusz                  JXP121@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Mirek Bielewicz         bielewcz@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca
Jaroslaw Wroblewski     jwr@lentil.princeton.edu
Jack Tuszynski          jjt@aristotle.Jpl.Nasa.Gov

Thanks again,

And now back to your regularly scheduled newsgroup...

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Bill Balcerzak       /*   Democracy is the worst form of  
bill@aec.msstate.edu /*   government -  except for all the
601-325-8321         /*   rest.  Winston Churchill