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10336 [lbo-talk] BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ released today -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Roger Scruton has written an aggressive, provocative, and persuasive > counterattack against the nihilism of modern intellectuals who would > repudiate the high culture of America and the West. > > - Robert H. Bork Has this guy actually read any of this "high culture"? Did Scruton's piece actually quote a single writer or cite a single piece of music or art? I can't say I read every word, but if it did, I missed it. ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 13:08:34 PST 2007

10337 [lbo-talk] Is the Anti-War movement in decline? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Oh cack, sorry: > > http://socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13518 "The fact that the Iraqi resistance is largely Islamist...." Is that actually true? I thought the resistance was a pretty diverse thing. Doug

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10338 [lbo-talk] BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ released today -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > here is if you don't want to be a degenerate > cultural relativist. Here's the lowdown from American Spectator: > > http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11879 > > Art, Beauty, and Judgment > By Roger Scruton > Published 8/28/2007 12:06:01 AM Jesus, what a profoundly idiotic piece. Is Scruton still around? I thought he was a relic of the Thatcher years.

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10339 [lbo-talk] BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ released today -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2007, at 2:47 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > RWF may not traffic in > transcendental joy, but it is not all gloom and doom. So what? Mahler, whose 9th Sym I happen to be listening to right now, wasn't exactly a laugh a minute. Is there some requirement that art be uplifting? Doug

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10340 [lbo-talk] Is the Anti-War movement in decline? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Yours truly on the case: > > http://socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13532 Eh? > Preston shows the potential for Respect to build strong roots > > > Preston Respect offers a model of what the organisation could > achieve across the country.

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 11:07:44 PST 2007

10341 [lbo-talk] BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ released today -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2007, at 1:28 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > Dave Kehr in the NY Times paid more attention to the > 1931 version than to Fassbinder's. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/movies/homevideo/13dvds.html > > I am at a loss to understand the competition he tries to > evoke between the two versions. I noticed that and also thought it was weird. This, and the IFC reviewer distancing himself from RWF - is he radioactive now? What's his rep in film circles these days? Amazon ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 10:38:47 PST 2007

10342 [lbo-talk] Journalism prof. admits plagiarizing material from student -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2007, at 1:06 PM, B. wrote: > If you remember, awhile back I posted to LBO-Talk some > research/finding I'd discovered on my own. And, lo and > behold, soon after it mysteriously appeared on -- if > memory serves -- the blog of a contributing editor of, > I think, Harper's, or maybe it was Atlantic Monthly. > (Too busy to search right now.) Harper's. July 2006. <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-July/014019.html> > George Scialabba forwarded the Rapture ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 10:23:38 PST 2007

10343 [lbo-talk] Journalism prof. admits plagiarizing material from student -- rank: 1000

No comment, of course. On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > > Does his last name begin with P? > > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> Hmm, I know of a certain radical professor of one of >> the social >> sciences who is very prolific. His works are often >> "co-authored," but >> that generally means the non-famous member of the >> duo wrote the piece >> or book. It's rampant.

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 09:37:48 PST 2007

10344 [lbo-talk] economic mobility study: the horse's mouth -- rank: 1000

Dear Doug: Today the Economic Mobility Project released three new reports of a series on economic mobility and the status of the American Dream. The three reports examine the economic mobility of American families across generations, of men and women, and of black and white families. "Doing better" than one's parents has long been a key element of the American Dream. But are Americans today better off than their own parents were a generation ago? How much does one's eventual succe ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 09:27:11 PST 2007

10345 [lbo-talk] Dems on Iraq: 0 for 40; war grows less unpopular -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6845.html> Democrats remain stalled on Iraq debate By: Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris November 13, 2007 10:40 AM EST As the congressional session lurches toward a close, Democrats are confronting some demoralizing arithmetic on Iraq. The numbers tell a story of political and substantive paralysis more starkly than most members are willing to acknowledge publicly, or perhaps even to themselves. Since taking the majority, they have forced 40 vot ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 09:19:58 PST 2007

10346 [lbo-talk] Income gap grows between white, black families in US -- rank: 1000

This study is interesting and important because it follows the same people over time instead of using cross sectional snapshots of the entire population. Snapshots, like the yearly Census income and poverty data, are informative, but they don't really tell you how people live. No one experiences a median directly. This study, though, does tell you something about how people live, and it's not pretty. Doug

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10347 [lbo-talk] counting to 200? 300? 500? 1000? add 3 more -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Nov. 13, 2007 Bank of America said it will take a pretax write-down of about $3 billion in the fourth quarter to reflect a drop in value of securities related to mortgages and will spend $600 million supporting in-house money market funds that are exposed to troubled financing entities called structured investment vehicles. Bank of America shares rallied more than 3% on the news. For more information, see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1194970818814 ...

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10348 [lbo-talk] Journalism prof. admits plagiarizing material from student -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2007, at 11:33 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > In the sciences it is normal to stick people's > names on articles or other writing even when they did > no research and wrote no part of the paper/book. Hmm, I know of a certain radical professor of one of the social sciences who is very prolific. His works are often "co-authored," but that generally means the non-famous member of the duo wrote the piece or book. It's rampant. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 08:53:50 PST 2007

10349 [lbo-talk] Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister -- rank: 1000

The moratorium on discussion of Iranian domestic affairs is still in effect. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 13 08:32:03 PST 2007

10350 [lbo-talk] 30s Depression -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2007, at 10:06 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > That's why I think it's unlikely the self-evident demise of the US > Empire > will trigger anything similar. This time around, the global > semi-peripheries -- places like Russia and China -- have constructed > mighty developmental states, immune to the toxic background > radiation of > neoliberalism. You can't accuse Nazi Germany of neoliberalism. It was, however, something of a developmental state. Keynes admired ...

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