On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Paul Echeverri wrote: #On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:29:15 -0800 (PST), Philip Hart # #> This is the first I'd heard of non-ideological disagreements with Diamond #> - is there something peer-reviewed I could check out? # #Not that I can think of offhand, but he lost me in the foreword with his #Noble, Smarter than Us White People, Savages bit. I read the book and I don't recall reacting that way to it. I think we must be reading it differently. Too long ago to remember just what the man said, and I can't lay hands on it now... or was it destroyed by the flood in the basement?... I should reread it, anyway. -- Mark A. Mandel