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13501 [lbo-talk] John Ford -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > The documentary "Lost in La Mancha" about Terry Gilliam's attempt > to film Don Q. is a great example of this. Film is not the product > of a single artist; it's a collaborative effort, and if any of the > collaborators fall down, the film falls down. --If your perfectly > cast Don Quixote develops a hernia and can't ride a horse, you're > not able to make the movie you wanted to make, no matter what kind > of a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 13:33:03 PST 2006

13502 [lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: >> >> On Nov 27, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: >> >>> reactionary beliefs >>> derived from rural culture >> >> Though based in an urban slum? >> >> How do you know what Sadr's program is? >> >> Doug > =================== > I haven't seen any of the material of the movement, except > indirectly, but I > think it's a good guess that the model the Sadrist ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 12:35:45 PST 2006

13503 [lbo-talk] CFR: Chavez no real threat, ignore his rhetoric -- rank: 1000

NEWS RELEASE Council on Foreign Relations November 27, 2006 United States Should Ignore Hugo Chavez's "Blustery Rhetoric," Argues New Council Report "Chávez's bark...is far worse than his bite," says a new Council Special Report, which urges U.S. officials to "look beyond his blustery rhetoric...as long as Chávez does not take steps that fundamentally threaten essential U.S. interests in Latin America." With polls showing Chávez strongly in the lead in the upco ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 10:29:11 PST 2006

13504 [lbo-talk] mathematics of mortgages -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 12:06 PM, joanna wrote: > There's something I am confused about... I read in the papers that > some people's ARMs will grow by leaps and bounds next year, but > interest rates have only moved up, oh, 3% or so. Why would that > make such a big difference? The recent low in fixed 30-year mortgage rates in the US was in 6/03, 5.23%. The recent high was 6.76% in 7/06. For a plain vanilla mortgage, the monthly payments, respectively, would be $1,652.90 and $1,947.79 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 09:22:24 PST 2006

13505 [lbo-talk] density & voting, 2006 -- rank: 1000

USA Today - November 27, 2006 <http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-26-democrats- suburbs_x.htm> Democratic gains in suburbs spell trouble for GOP By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY WASHINGTON Democrats made large gains in suburbia in this month's elections, pushing Republican turf to the outer edges of major population centers in a trend that could signal trouble for the GOP, an analysis shows. Democrats carried nearly 60% of the U.S. House vote in inner suburbs in the nation's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 08:56:57 PST 2006

13506 [lbo-talk] megabucks for W's library -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - November 27, 2006 <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/474889p-399492c.html> W library in record book $500M center would be priciest for a Prez BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON - He may be a certified lame duck now, but President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign - an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library. Eager to begin refurbishing his tattered le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 08:54:02 PST 2006

13507 [lbo-talk] the purpose-driven Obama -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] On Friday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) joins Rick Warren, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and others when he speaks at Saddleback Church on World AIDS Day in Lake Forest, CA.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 08:51:45 PST 2006

13508 [lbo-talk] housing bubble overcorrection -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: > Before Shiller, Kindleberger Yup. I pointed to Shiller because he has lots of mainstream cred and uses math. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 08:43:01 PST 2006

13509 [lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > reactionary beliefs > derived from rural culture Though based in an urban slum? How do you know what Sadr's program is? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 08:38:39 PST 2006

13510 [lbo-talk] Tirman: The Complexity of Making Nice with Iraq's Neighbors -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 12:52 AM, Michael Pollak quoted John Tirman: > There are many assets in the region -- Turkey's able construction > companies Val Moghadam said in my interview with her that Iran badly needed earthquake-proof construction rather than a nuclear bomb. Something for the quid-pro-quo list. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 06:38:02 PST 2006

13511 [lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Doug makes it sound like no one in Iraq has a political program, but > that is not the case. Sadr does. The Mahdi Army is said to model > itself on Hizballah, combining mass actions, social services, and > armed resistance. That is the correct strategy, straight out of the > Marxist manual for national liberation. In the Middle East, it's > populist Islamists like Sadr and Nasrallah who are better > Marxist-Leninists ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 05:59:14 PST 2006

13512 [lbo-talk] probably too late to sell your Ecuador bonds -- rank: 1000

Ecuador leftist ahead in election By Patrick Markey QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, was headed for victory after Sunday's run-off for the country's eighth presidency in a decade, three exit polls showed. Correa's rival Alvaro Noboa, Ecuador's wealthiest man, dismissed the poll results and said he believed he had won the second-round vote. He said he could demand a review of the ballots if necessary after official res ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 26 15:54:11 PST 2006

13513 [lbo-talk] housing bubble overcorrection -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Keith Nybakke wrote: > "All manias end with a reverting past the mean - falling to levels > seen before the bubble started." > > I ran across this statement while looking at several housing bubble > blogs. It was repeated, in some form or another, several times. > > Is it a valid truism? It's usually thought to be, by people who believe in bubbles. People who believe that markets are rational and/or random would reject that. But the e ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 26 15:14:18 PST 2006

13514 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 25, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > But the thing is that we don't > suffer from the difficulty that confronts the Iraqis, even though we > are among those who have caused it. Almost no one likely to read your words "caused" the difficulties Iraq is suffering through. As someone pointed out to me offlist recently, this line of yours is pure liberal guilt. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 25 12:01:34 PST 2006

13515 [lbo-talk] Suburban alienation? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2006, at 5:35 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > "Burbs not so bad after all > > "Shannon Proudfoot, CanWest News Service > Published: Saturday, November 11, 2006 > > "A new study says that people who live in sprawling suburban areas > have more friends, better community involvement and more frequent > contact with their neighbours than urbanites who are wedged in side- > by-side. ... > > "The study, released by the University of Califor ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 24 18:02:06 PST 2006