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14986 [lbo-talk] health industry loves Hillary -- rank: 1000

New York Times - July 12, 2006 Once an Enemy, Health Industry Warms to Clinton By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and ROBERT PEAR When she tried to overhaul the nation s health care system as first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton alienated some people and institutions in the health care industry by championing a huge expansion of the federal role. She provoked a fierce reaction from the industry, which mocked her proposal in television advertisements and dispatched lobbyists who ultimately helped kill the p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 12 06:46:45 PDT 2006

14987 [lbo-talk] the Reps & the Voting Rights Act -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - July 12, 2006 Voting Rights Act Renewal Divides GOP Bush's plan to attract more minorities to the party faces a rebellion by conservatives, who see provisions of the law as an insult to the South. By Peter Wallsten and Johanna Neuman, Times Staff Writers WASHINGTON In an intensely competitive election year, this was supposed to be the issue virtually everyone in Congress could agree on: renewing civil rights-era laws protecting minorities' access to the ballot box. But ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 12 06:41:58 PDT 2006

14988 [lbo-talk] Men are slackers -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:21 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > I have no idea why there are more men than women on > lists. It's true in classrooms too, no? Men talk more than women. What about biz meetings? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 12 06:31:19 PDT 2006

14989 [lbo-talk] the Gates money -- rank: 1000

<http://blog.healthmongers.org/2006/07/11/prof-howard-berliner-on-the- buffett-donation-and-the-gates-foundation/#more-156> Prof. Howard Berliner on the Buffett Donation and the Gates Foundation I asked Howard Berliner, Professor of Health Services Management and Policy at the New School in New York City, if he could write a brief comment on the Buffett donation and the ideology of the Gates Foundation, and he graciously agreed to do so. Berliner is a polymath an expert on urban heal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 12 06:16:01 PDT 2006

14990 [lbo-talk] more Bartha -- rank: 1000

Wow, he was surprised to hear Mr Buchanan quoting Gramsci: <http:// therealestate.observer.com/Bartha.pdf>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 20:38:24 PDT 2006

14991 [lbo-talk] blowing up houses and stuff -- rank: 1000

So this guy in New York was really pissed at his wife and liberals and people who prevent US companys from making a few holes in Alaska and pedophiles and abortions and legal aid, so he blew up his house: <http://therealestate.observer.com/2006/07/subject-bartha-bartha- importance-low.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 20:29:23 PDT 2006

14992 [lbo-talk] stupid press release of the day -- rank: 1000

> Hi, > > I'm pleased to let you know that Matt Weinstein and Luke Barber, co- > authors > of GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (Perigee Trade Paperback Original; > September 2006) > are available for interview. > > Your listeners already knows the song Row, Row, Row Your Boat. So they > already know the four keys for achieving personal success and > effectiveness > at work. All they need now is the help and guidance to make these > remarkable > principles work! &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 15:13:19 PDT 2006

14993 [lbo-talk] Yoshie: "dialogue" takes listening on your part, too -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Doug Henwood quoted Yoshie Furuhashi: > What you posted is exactly the same thing as what Steven L. Robinson > posted on June 28 > <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of- > Mon-20060626/041028.html>, > to which I responded on the same day: > <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of- > Mon-20060626/041031.html>. And here's some material from Yoshie's response: > About this and other cases, too, questi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 15:12:03 PDT 2006

14994 [lbo-talk] Yoshie: "dialogue" takes listening on your part, too -- rank: 1000

[I can't read everything that goes by, but I've read enough of Yoshie's writings on Iran to know that I disagree with them. And I find it distressing to see a branch of MR, a publication with a long history of secularism and Marxism, be used as a transmission belt for apologetics for a reactionary theocratic regime. Yeah, so it's sweetened with a bit of populist economics, but populist economics are mostly pretty dodgy, as most Marxist economists would be eager to show.] Begin forwarded m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 15:02:32 PDT 2006

14995 [lbo-talk] Bush admin on Cuba -- rank: 1000

[This is from Ned Sublette, who sent it to his little list.] As you may have heard, the united states state department's commission for assistance to a free cuba has just released its report to the president. the report was has been rumored about for a while, but has only now become available. it was probably initially planned for release on may 20 (the alleged date of cuban independence day, though cuban dependence day would be more like it, since it commemorates the birth in 1902 of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 11:18:36 PDT 2006

14996 [lbo-talk] BHL overwrites on Zidane -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2006, at 2:04 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > It's a measure of how low Hitch has sunk that he > should now like BHL, I think he's liked BHL for a long time. We ran into Hitch at a book party for BHL's daughter last fall, and explained that the reason he was there (aside from the fact that BHL's daughter is extremely beautiful and charming) is that he's a friend of her father's. If you take BHL as a comedian, then he's a really good one, though that's probably not his inten ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 11:14:20 PDT 2006

14997 [lbo-talk] Thomas Ferguson's Golden Rule: criticism? compliments? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Doug or anyone else on this list, > > I was wondering if anyone has read _Golden Rule : The Investment > Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political > Systems_ by Thomas Ferguson. > > If so what do you think of it? Any criticisms? I haven't read the book, but I've read a lot of Ferguson's other stuff, and am familiar with his argument. I think he underestimates the degree to which big givers follo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 11:11:33 PDT 2006

14998 [lbo-talk] BHL overwrites on Zidane -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Does anybody besides the editors of the WSJ and AM actually like > this guy? I've never heard anyone mention him without expressing > boredom or disdain. Christopher Hitchens likes him, and Felix Rohatyn adores him. At a Council on Foreign Relations event <http://www.cfr.org/publication/ 9755/in_the_footsteps_of_toqueville_audio.html>, Rohatyn addressed him throughout as "BHL," using the French pronunciation, and gushed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 08:57:17 PDT 2006

14999 [lbo-talk] Hillary does Wall Street -- rank: 1000

[a day late, but probably not a dollar short...] Financial Times - July 10, 2006 Clinton seeks to woo Wall Street By Ben White in New York Hillary Clinton has been cosying up to Wall Street in recent weeks with a series of meetings with top executives that could help her follow the path blazed by her husband ahead of his first presidential run. People familiar with the meetings said they appeared intended to help Wall Street figures get to know the New York senator better as she coasts thro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 07:15:39 PDT 2006

15000 [lbo-talk] BHL overwrites on Zidane -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:51 AM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > That should be 'Doug Henwood understates BHL on Zidane'. That was > the most overwrought, garish, OTT pile of crap I've read in some time. Wasn't it remarkable? I thought it was worth posting just because it's so magnificently awful.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 07:04:37 PDT 2006