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Re: C'punks Economist Fan Club

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Fri Jan 6 06:38:27 1995

Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 06:22:09 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)

>It's witty, politically
>aware, relatively technically savvy. The articles exhibit a healthy (IMHO)
>cynicism about what happens and why, yet maintain some idealism about what
>should happen. It's not perfect, but it's difficult to imagine surpassing it.

The Economist is fully informed and funny.  What domestic news magazine
would include the following in one of *their* leads (editorials):

Circa 1987

"It is unlikely that Gorbachev has included an invasion of Western Europe in
his next Five Year Plan but his generals *have* made their preparations.
Lucky Britain is in the *Polish* Army's Zone of Occupation."

DCF

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