Faustine writes:

Tim wrote:

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Besides the above points, a "rigorous and objective analysis" is work for bean counters...and is only interesting to other bean counters.

So von Neumann, Kahn, Schelling and Nash are boring, huh. I'd rather follow their examples than spend year after year chitchatting on Usenet. Such an intelligent and creative man, what a waste.

Then what the hell are you doing here, chitchatting on the list many critics have characterized as Tim's private cesspool?

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Faustine has gradstudentitus. She or he will likely get his >or her Masters or maybe even Ph.D. and will then vanish into the bowels of the Office of Implementational Policy Assessment, commuting to work each morning on the Metro, hoping to advance to GS-13 level before age 40, and generally living a life of quiet desperation. But her or his analysis papers will be suitably dry and rigorous...and ignorable.

For someone who claims not to know whether I'm a woman or not, your overactive imagination certainly got busy on the details. Unlike you, I'm not so easily trolled into showing my hand. So if whipping up some dreary banalities for me makes you feel better, go right ahead. Though you're so far off, it really is amusing.

Yes, Tim. Come on. Faustine will be doing Important Rigorous and Objective Policy Analysis. Her work will have Real Impact. Members of Congress and the Administration will invite her to come give them briefings (at least those with sufficient clearance). Large corporations will be wetting themselves in their anxiety to have her join their Board of Directors. She just doesn't want to "show her hand" yet. You know, all those paparazzi can be so annoying. And it's hard to get important Policy Analysis done when you're being pestered by all those lightweights in Congress. Besides: Gosh! Just think: we'll be able to say that we knew her when. - GH _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp