three years later: Osama's sons = 85 Dow points

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood
>
>Wall St Week Ahead-No party for bubble anniversary Friday March 7, 5:35 pm 
>ET By Denise Duclaux
>
>NEW YORK, March 7 (Reuters) - Monday marks the third anniversary of the 
>biggest party ever hosted by Wall Street, but investors will pass the day 
>with gloom -- and a sizable dose of bitterness -- as the countdown to war 
>and the erosion of the market continue.
>
>The technology-stuffed Nasdaq composite index (IXIC) soared as high as 
>5,132.52 on March 10, 2000 -- hitting a level never seen in its roughly 
>30-year history and not likely to be witnessed again any time soon.
>
>Sentiment took a 180-degree turn the following three years, and next week 
>will highlight the startling shift in mood as the deadline for a war on 
>Iraq looms, the hunt for terror suspects intensifies and economic data 
>paint a dreary picture. ...

Fortune plango vulnera (I bemoan the wounds of Fortune)

I bemoan the wounds of Fortune
with weeping eyes,
for the gifts she made me
she perversely takes away.
It is written in truth,
that she has a fine head of hair,
but, when it comes to seizing an opportunity
she is bald.

On Fortune's throne
I used to sit raised up,
crowned with
the many-coloured flowers of prosperity;
though I may have flourished
happy and blessed,
now I fall from the peak
deprived of glory. ...

-- From Carl Orff, "Carmina Burana"

Carl

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