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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (50420)	8/12/2001 12:11:39 PM
From: scott_jiminez	of 70976

<<2. I have always excelled intellectually and I have always been a voracious and critical reader>> Me too, Cary. And when folks come after me with claims of arrogance or self-righteousness, I am well aware that I've worked harder, read more, and spent more intellectual capital distilling the 'big picture' than any of them. Thus I feel perfectly comfortable rationalizing my attitude, despite repeated claims that my view of the world is completely self-serving. Perhaps my approach is a bit ruthless, even social-Darwinesque, but my intellectual prowess clearly dictates such behavior. All this is quite ironic, don't you know: my parents arrived in the US in the late '30s, deciding they chose not to try their luck on a offer of a free ride on a certain European railroad, destination unknown. The irony is that the Chairman and CEO of that rail line possessed an attitude very similar to my own.