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11821 [lbo-talk] FT to keep "chargewall"; a door policy improves audience quality -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Hubba hubba! Just what kind of explicit plutographic chats and > intimate cyber-gropings can be found at the FT forums? I'd tell, but that would be indiscreet! Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 11:29:46 PST 2007

11822 [lbo-talk] gendering the CPI -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch's chief economist, David Rosenberg] Gender gap in the CPI? Focus on firms that cater to women After sifting through the January CPI report in more detail, we discovered a disparity between the pricing power of retail establishments that cater to women and those geared towards men. Now there is no doubt that some men like to shop for bedroom and dining room furniture and some women love to ride motorbikes, so this may be seen as a sweeping generalization. But there may ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 11:14:37 PST 2007

11823 [lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

I'm not sure what the practical implications are of the Rev Furuhashi's apologetics for religion. Should secular leftists refuse to work with religious ones in antiwar or living wage campaigns? Of course not. I can't imagine anyone doing that. Should you shed your intellectual honesty and stifle criticism of religion? I sure hope not. So where's this all going? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 11:03:46 PST 2007

11824 [lbo-talk] FT to keep "chargewall"; a door policy improves audience quality -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - February 26, 2007 <http://media.guardian.co.uk/city/story/0,,2021582,00.html> Pearson rethinks FT website Richard Wray, communications editor The proliferation of voices on the internet, with millions of people posting their views on blogs and online communities, has caused Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, to rethink opening up its flagship FT.com website. Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino, announcing a strong 19% rise in annual profits to £502m, ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 10:49:22 PST 2007

11825 [lbo-talk] TNR update -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/new-republic/tnr-hopes-fatter-ass-will- compensate-for-fewer-issues-239605.php> 'TNR' Hopes Fatter Ass Will Compensate For Fewer Issues As we mentioned on Friday, The New Republic, the nation's leading provider of pro-Israel diatribes and grudging apologies for fiercely supporting the war in Iraq will be switching to a twice-per-month publishing schedule (which will still wind up in your mailbox two weeks late). Okay, we're excited: new frequency, bigger issues, ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 10:46:18 PST 2007

11826 [lbo-talk] Hillary to walk a mile in an SEIUer's shoes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=washingtonstory&sid=aAQB39yKY53s> Nurse Hillary? Clinton to Accept Union Challenge By Kristin Jensen Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Andrew Stern, whose union offers one of the most sought-after endorsements for Democratic presidential candidates, said Senator Hillary Clinton will accept the group's challenge to "walk" in a member's shoes, perhaps as a nurse or a highway worker. Stern's Service Employees International Union is asking every ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 10:33:20 PST 2007

11827 [lbo-talk] Cong Dems lose momentum on Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> All of American politics 2007 (and, of course, most of 2008) will be determined by the fallout from Democratic efforts on Capitol Hill to force President Bush to change course in Iraq. The implications of Democrats' success or under today's conventional wisdom failure to force the White House's hand will carom far and wide. The overall Democratic strategic imperative remains the same use public opinion to pressure enough R ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 10:20:17 PST 2007

11828 [lbo-talk] Israel denies report of Iran attack plan -- rank: 1000

[Claud Cockburn's law: Never believe anything until it's been officially denied.] <http://sg.news.yahoo.com/070224/3/46wc8.html> ISRAEL DENIES REPORT IT IS PLANNING AN IRAN ATTACK By Jonathan Saul JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's deputy defence minister denied on Saturday that Israel was in talks with the United States to use Iraqi airspace as part of possible plans to attack Iranian nuclear sites. The Daily Telegraph, citing an unnamed senior Israeli defence official, said on Saturday t ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 24 08:36:25 PST 2007

11829 [lbo-talk] Adios, New Republic? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Michael Perelman wrote: > In the days of Kopkind and Ridgeway, the ranking was reversed. Which was also the era of my father-in-law, Jay Featherstone. Ridgeway gets a lot of time in that Nader documentary. Love that guy. That's when Nader was feeding his stuff to Kopkind and Ridgeway. The Nation is much poorer for Kopkind's death. He used to write lots of the unsigned editorials, which meant they were sharp and funny. The Nation needs more sharp and funny. Dou ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 24 08:25:51 PST 2007

11830 [lbo-talk] Adios, New Republic? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Oł sont les > Krauthammers d'antan? Ha. And apropos de rien, Morton Kondracke's daughter Alexandra is a staff writer on The L Word. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 24 06:25:25 PST 2007

11831 [lbo-talk] Cultural Consumption -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > This is only tangentially related (if at all) to the > discussion at hand, but I am reminded of something one > of my favorite living pianists, John Tilbury, member > of the improvising ensemble AMM and known as a premier > interpreter of the piano works of Morton Feldman, has > to write in explanation of his decision to no longer > give performances in the United States: This is rather anti-American for you, no? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 19:56:50 PST 2007

11832 [lbo-talk] Adios, New Republic? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Joel Schalit wrote: > The Weekly Standard and The Economist combined are taking them out. > Most likely..... : > ) And The Nation has left them in the dust, with a circ some three times theirs. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 19:54:21 PST 2007

11833 [lbo-talk] watch those tweens & teens! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2007, at 4:41 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > At 04:20 PM 2/23/2007, you wrote: > >> think it meant for mall REITs > > > what are mall REITs? REIT (pronounced "reet") = real estate investment trust. It's a bunch of real estate properties packaged into a security, kind of like a high-dividend stock. The dividend reflects the rental income of the properties, and the price of the security reflects any appreciation (or depreciation) in the value of ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 13:54:19 PST 2007

11834 [lbo-talk] watch those tweens & teens! -- rank: 1000

[Merrill Lynch chief economist David Rosenberg puts out a top 10 list every Friday afternoon. Here's #8 from this week's edition.] 8) Watch out for those tweens and teens: this is the one demographic the USA has that no other G7 country enjoys, which is a 70 million+ pipeline of teens and tweens for businesses to focus on: far too much emphasis, in our view, is placed on the aging population and not enough on this bloated and burgeoning younger demographic (we wrote two reports on this in ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 13:20:48 PST 2007

11835 [lbo-talk] Dems seek rethink of Iraq war resolution as Murtha scheme dies -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - Febraury 23, 2007 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/ AR2007022201743.html> Democrats Seek to Repeal 2002 War Authorization By Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writers Senate Democratic leaders intend to unveil a plan next week to repeal the 2002 resolution authorizing the war in Iraq in favor of narrower authority that restricts the military's role and begins withdrawals of combat troops. House Democrats have pul ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 07:57:02 PST 2007