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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=nedlt@yahoo.com href="mailto:nedlt@yahoo.com">Ned
Late</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>> Come to think of it, the women in my family frequently say "a woman
should not be judged by her looks", but then they drool over a photo of Ashton
Kutcher. I mean, Kutcher isn't a success due to his engineering
abilities, is he?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would be more impressed if you had said the women
in your family drooled over the cute janitor or the handsome gardener or the
beauteous carpenter. Looks certainly count (you'll never catch me
saying they don't), but when it comes to men - money and success and celebrity
have a way of compensating for being rather plain or downright
ugly or even sickly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If Kutcher has</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
some bucks and celebrity - AND looks ... well, I'm totally not
surprised. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It just seems, however - in a broad
sense, of course - that even these days men are more willing to buy,
and women are more willing to sell (themselves). Guns and butter and
all that, but NOT good economics in MY book.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But, then, who am I? I
don't even know who Ashton Kutcher is.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Olga</FONT></DIV>
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