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Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.(Communications waits out the economic downturn)(Column)

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From: Cadence
Date: 20011101
Author:LAISERIN, JERRY

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity...."--from Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

The long night of the French Revolution separated the sunset of the eighteenth century's ancien regime from the dawn of the nineteenth century's era of democratic and industrial progress. Every few months throughout the 1790s brought a new wave of revolutionaries more revolutionary than the last. Whether Commune or Directorate, Girondin or Jacobin--even The ...

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