Keeping it brief (Was Re: Lazare responds)

[Carl Remick]

>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>  I suspect it's
> > nearly impossible to say anything cogent or gripping
> > about the world
> > situation in under 3 minutes.
>
>The Gettysburg address takes about three minutes to
>read aloud, maybe less. . . . Though I gather it was a
>flop as given, or Lincoln thought so.
>
>jks

Of course the Gettysburg Address was a flop -- it wasn't anywhere near brief 
enough!  Using modern business communications techniques, the GA has been 
tightened up and given the focus it so desperately needed.  See 
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

Carl

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