From dmeadows@idirect.com Sat Apr 29 08:45:37 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA15360 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:45:37 -0700 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA16698 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:45:36 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-02-40.look.ca [216.154.51.232]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA62343 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:44:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000429114438.00aced70@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:45:03 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: Quote of the Day Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed [I tried sending this last week ... only to find I had been unsubscribed! -- dm] From the NYTimes ... not sure whether this is a positive or negative reflection on our profession: QUOTE OF THE DAY ================ "I might as well be teaching the Peloponnesian Wars." - COL. COLE C. KINGSEED, on teaching West Point cadets about the Vietnam War. Full Story: A Case Study in Disaster for Tomorrow's Generals http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/042800vietnam-west-point.html dm .