[Am-info] Re: Pusilanimous

[Erick Andrews]

On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:44:58 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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>sturde@az.com wrote:
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>> In <20020306170102.510F029BCE@lists.essential.org>, on 03/06/02
>>    at 12:01 PM, am-info-request@venice.essential.org said:
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>> I have just read about DOJ's argument for its "settlement" with MS in the
>> Register and WSJ.  It reminds me of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman
>> Empire.  I first read an abridgement of it, before I read the whole book.
>> But in the abridgment the word "pusilanimous" kept appearing in describing
>> certain people and events.  I finally pulled out the dictionary and looked
>> up the word.  It is a "contemptible cowardice".  The more things change,
>> the more they remain the same.
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>So pusillanimous poltroons are redundant?
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>> I think the settlement will not be approved.
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>Me too.  The good Judge is disgusted with the antics of Microsoft.   Who
>wouldn't be?
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>And being a Democrat, her ideology isn't aligned with the current
>Administration.  She's got nothing to lose by slamming them hard.

I pray she stays away from people writing books, particularly Mr Auletta.

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Erick Andrews