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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

Peter da Silva peter at baileynm.com
Wed Sep 23 18:40:10 EST 1998


In article <6ubi5f$h01$1 at void.agames.com>,
Mike Albaugh <albaugh at agames.com> wrote:
>	I'll give you that his refusal of offered "kingship" was
>an important event, but might it not have been something like
>Caesar's refusal of the Roman "crown", that is, pro-forma?

Given his refusal to run for a third term as President, setting a precedent
that lasted until the middle of the 20th century before being broken and
then, because of his precedent, turned into law... no, I don't think so.

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In hoc signo hack, Peter da Silva <peter at baileynm.com>
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