<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>---- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dhenwood@panix.com href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:20 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> the value of a Yale degree</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>I'm having a bit of a flamewar with my fellow Yalies on the class of <BR>'75 list. A progressive black minister from New Haven, W. David Lee, <BR> working up to a frothy </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>[snip</FONT><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>]</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT><BR>pitch of anger, I read this quote from the world's most prominent <BR>Yale alum, and was reminded just what a venerable institution the <BR>university is.<BR><BR>>It is clear, he said the other day, that presidents should not organize a<BR>>summit mmeting unless they know for certain they can get a deal. "This doesn't<BR>>have nothing to do with reputation," Mr. Bush said, according to a transcript<BR>>released by the White House. "It has everything to do with the consequences if<BR>>it fails."<BR><BR>Doug<BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>your "world's most prominent yale alum must be the lamb who lost his way, the sheep who went astray, as portrayed in the whiffenpoof song, "doomed from here to eternity":</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#000080><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>"Doomed from here to eternity<BR>Lord have mercy on such as we<BR>Baa, baa, baa"</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>