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From: wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner)
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Subject: Re: I have here..
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Date: 12 Nov 90 15:03:18 GMT
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campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:

>In article <7046@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500gsv@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu writes:
>-
>-Sorry, friends, but I would imagine that a majority of the university
>-(student) folk who read the net didn't catch the McCarthy reference
>-because they weren't born when McCarthy was important in the national
>-political arena.  ...

>So I guess we shouldn't expect students to be familiar with any important
>events that occurred before they were born...
>-- 
>Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
>campbell@redsox.bsw.com                 120 Fulton Street
>wjh12!redsox!campbell                   Boston, MA 02109

McCarthy? Someone just told me he was in a band before WINGS? Is this true? 
Was it very political?

-Peter 
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