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On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, J.F. Gannon wrote:

> It is fair to conclude from Noonan's remarks that she is not well versed in
> the history of the Empire in the time of Justinian.  Your further inference
> that she has "not a shred of intelligence" suggest that your own has its
> limitations.

My intelligence, like everyone's, certainly has its limitations. 
Perhaps that's why I fail to understand the furious, frothing hostility of this
remark.  Is Peggy the girlfriend of J F Gannon, lucky fellow? 

-- Michael J. Smith
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