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Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:42:47 -0500
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From: David Meadows <dmeadows@idirect.com>
Subject: Re: The Midas Touch
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...... arghhhhhhhhhh ... and now it's all over CNN. So now the followup 
question to our thread of August 1997; does the fact that Nathaniel 
Hawthorne wrote the 'golden touch' side of this thing make this something 
we should be pointing out to all the journalists who seem to think it ancient?

dm

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