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14116 [lbo-talk] former-blah and ex-bleh -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >A question for Joanna, Carrol and other language type people: > >I notice a lot of people write fSU (by which I am assuming they mean >former Soviet Union) or ex-USSR, etc. I can understand the use of former >or ex in the case of entities that continue to exist (or were replaced >by an equivalent one): ex-president Bill Clinton, my former spouse >Leslie Nagsalltime. But it seems strange to use them otherwise. There is >no Soviet Union today and the only Sovie ...

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14117 [lbo-talk] it's not just Madeleine Albright... -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 2, 2006 PRAISE THE LORD PARIS Hilton is deeply religious, she tells Michael Musto for an Out magazine cover story. "I'm Catholic. Of course, they're not going to run pictures of me in church," she said. In the interview, which was filmed for an episode of "The Simple Life," Hilton said of "Jealousy," her song about Nicole Richie: "I brought her on the show, and all of a sudden she became this different person." Meanwhile, Mus ...

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14118 [lbo-talk] Colbert on Daily Show yesterday, post-Bush bashing -- rank: 1000

And isn't Colbert too much of a wuss to be believable as a mock O'Reilly?

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14119 [lbo-talk] Colbert on Daily Show yesterday, post-Bush bashing -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >took the time to watch this and I just about fell asleep it was so >boring -- and not nearly as rude or funny as folks made it out to >be. I suppose rude in the sense that you're not supposed to rub the >president's face in this sort of thing -- and I'm sure Shrubya threw >a tanty later on. But, we have nursery rhymes that were hard on >leaders a few centuries ago that seem harsher than Colbert's stuff. I don't think it was very funny either, but ...

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14120 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Joel Schalit: >It definitely seems like the Democrats are pimping the God card in >prep for the fall elections. Yck. Its also extremely insincere - >trying to lure in Xtian voters in ways that they would never take >seriously. Albright's an odd bird by background too - a Jew who >converted to Catholicism etc. > >[WS:] It is not that uncommon in E Europe, though. Some of these converts >are even more catholic than the pope. > >However, ...

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14121 [lbo-talk] Racist tories (?) -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >On the other hand, the Tories got so comprehensively carried out at the last >election, based on a truly dreadful dog-whistle-racism campaign designed by >Lynton Crosbie (John Howard's political consultant) and based on various >slogans about "bogus asylum seekers", that they are for once trying >to play the >opposite tune; to try to tell the electorate that they are a normal people's >party and the racist nutters are no longer welcome. My ba ...

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Date:	Tue May 2 05:49:57 PDT 2006

14122 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Joel Schalit wrote: >Albright's an odd bird by background too - a Jew who converted to >Catholicism etc. She said growing up she was the most religious in her family, and wanted at one point to be a priest. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 1 19:10:48 PDT 2006

14123 [lbo-talk] Ben and Maria -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 1, 2006 Markets Learn a Lesson By Jerry Knight Washington Post Staff Writer The stock market collapsed in the final hour of trading today after CNBC reported Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke believes Wall Street misinterpreted remarks he made last week about interest rates. In a object lesson on the way Wall Street and Washington work, the revisionist version of the Fed chairman's views came out of a casual conversation Saturday night at the White House Correspondent's ...

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Date:	Mon May 1 18:16:23 PDT 2006

14124 [lbo-talk] Reuters on the rallies -- rank: 1000

[I saw a large and spirited crowd marching down Broadway as I was heading off to study the ruling class at the CFR. Little Ivan went to his first protest at Union Square this afternoon. This is just inspiring stuff - will these immigrants be like those of the earliest 20th century who brought radical politics with them and shook up the natives' torpor?] Immigrants rally across the US By Michael Conlon 2 hours, 2 minutes ago CHICAGO (Reuters) - From the streets of New York to the lettuce fields o ...

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14125 [lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Just back from a chatfest at the Council on Foreign Relations >featuring Madelein Albright - who's really high on god these days, >and thinks we need to take religion more seriously. Aside from that >stunningly original idea, she did pronounce the invasion of Iraq the >worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history - worse than Vietnam. >She didn't offer any suggestions on what to do about it, though. Oh yeah, she also made a big deal out of possible "l ...

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14126 [lbo-talk] Albright on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Just back from a chatfest at the Council on Foreign Relations featuring Madelein Albright - who's really high on god these days, and thinks we need to take religion more seriously. Aside from that stunningly original idea, she did pronounce the invasion of Iraq the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history - worse than Vietnam. She didn't offer any suggestions on what to do about it, though. Doug

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14127 [lbo-talk][Shiavo and Eastwood [was Immigration and Disability] -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >While you are on the list it would be nice for you to share your >views about Terri Schiavo and Clint Eastwood's film, "Million Dollar >Baby." She's signed off. Doug

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14128 [lbo-talk] Re: "Save Darfur" etc (and other responses) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski to Joe Wanzala: >Unlike you, who probably have never lived outside the US Ooops.

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Date:	Mon May 1 09:58:37 PDT 2006

14129 [lbo-talk] CHE: JKG remembered -- rank: 1000

[Alan Sweezy?] Chronicle of Higher Education - May 1, 2006 John Kenneth Galbraith Is Remembered as a Mentor and Scholar By DAVID GLENN John Kenneth Galbraith, who died on Saturday at the age of 97, was one of the most prominent American economists of the 20th century. He advised three generations of Democratic Party leaders, most visibly John F. Kennedy, for whom he served as U.S. Ambassador to India. And in best-selling books including American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (H ...

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14130 [lbo-talk] happy b'day... -- rank: 1000

...to lbo-talk, which turns 8 today. As does Lou Proyect's Marxism list (and since we've made peace, I'm extending him congrats as well). Doug

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