In a message dated 6/14/2007 5:41:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, MLamond writes:
I hereby offer all apologies due. I accept your apology and know you'll be more careful in the future. I know you declared the BID dead, but you must have sent that out as a sympathy message, and here I misinterpreted it as gloating. Yes, I did state my conviction that the BID was dead. And I expressed satisfaction that the points I've been making about it being an ill-conceived plan are now broadly recognized. But "delighted?" Hardly. It's a personal defeat for those who genuinely believed it was a good idea, despite my fundamental disagreement with them, and I regret any emotional or career pain it has caused anyone. I can only hope that they learn something from the experience about transparency and the spirit of compromise. There's no reason -- as I stated at the onset of the HD debate and again when this all began -- that these things have to be "winner-take-all" propositions. I am, however, "delighted" to see by your apology that you now recognize the problem a person gets into when he or she presumes to "read something into" what somebody else says. It's so easy to misinterpret another's motivations based on what you "want" to believe a person "meant" rather than taking whatever was said -- or, better, written -- at face value. Well, you seemed to have learned a lesson from this and I won't pursue it any further. And I've learned that you can be gracious in admitting your mistakes. Your friend and neighbor Al Krigman ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
