<HTML>In a message dated 8/1/2001 11:56:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-lbo-talk-digest@lists.panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Well, comrades, back from Australia, which is a very fine place. Did I miss anything while I was gone? </BLOCKQUOTE> Just the world's longest dissection of Habermas. Enough Habermas to satisfy the rest of us until the next millennium. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>