<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/11/2004 9:08:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Chris Dos - or anyone with some knowledge of this - could you ask <BR>some Soviet old-timers what it was like when Brezhnev died? Was there <BR>a week of force-fed mourning and hysterical canonization in every <BR>newspaper and broadcast outlet? Or are our nominally "private" and <BR>"free" media doing better work than the state media in a one-party <BR>state ever did?<BR><BR>Doug</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>Hey, I am not complaining.  I got the day off!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sergio</DIV></BODY></HTML>