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16291 [lbo-talk] seeing things as a man -- rank: 1000

<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/14413411.htm>http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/14413411.htm She took the testosterone road to manhood An author's female-to-male transformation has turned out to be more than just sexual. By Faye Flam What makes a man a man? How much of our sex differences are cultural, how much hard-wired biology? Who better to ask than Max Wolf Valerio - a 49-year-old man who was once a woman? You're probably asking yourself the same questions everyone asked me when I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 11:59:05 PDT 2006

16292 [lbo-talk] Bubble 2.0? -- rank: 1000

New York - May 1, 2006 IMPERIAL CITY The Way We Boom Now What this age of Internet euphoria looks like to those of us who were in the game last time around. For one, bubbles aren't completely bad. By Kurt Andersen Twelve years ago, when I had just become editor of this magazine, my friend Walter Isaacson, who was then in charge of Time Warner's embryonic Internet publishing strategy, advised me to "get the domain name 'New York'-for the Web." He was right, of course, although at the ti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 10:08:49 PDT 2006

16293 [lbo-talk] Osama, art critic -- rank: 1000

Prophet cartoon offenders must be killed: bin Laden 2 hours, 54 minutes ago DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has called for people who ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad to be killed, weighing into the furor that erupted after a Danish newspaper ran cartoons lampooning Islam's holy messenger. "Heretics and atheists, who denigrate religion and transgress against God and His Prophet, will not stop their enmity toward Islam except by being killed," the Saudi-born militant sai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:30:22 PDT 2006

16294 [lbo-talk] journalism -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/romenesko/today-in-blindingly-obvious-discoveries-about-people-in-pajamas-169133.php> Today in Blindingly Obvious Discoveries About People in Pajamas READ MORE: BLOGS, ROMENESKO <graphic> Real journalism is difficult and bloggers want no part of it Philadelphia Inquirer </graphic> Um, duh. Real Journalism Is Difficult and Bloggers Want No Part of It [Romenesko] <http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=100358> Blog, Humbug! [Philadelphia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:21:20 PDT 2006

16295 [lbo-talk] NYT BS on Burkle? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 24, 2006 TIMES ROLLS OVER FOR BURKLE THE New York Times may want to change its self-important slogan to "All the Puff Pieces That Are Fit to Print" after publishing a questionably researched article on Page One yesterday about the friendship and financial ties between babe-loving billionaire supermarket exec Ron Burkle and former horndog-in-chief Bill Clinton, who's an adviser on funds run by Burkle's Yucaipa Companies. The piece by Times vets John M. B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:14:00 PDT 2006

16296 [lbo-talk] Hillary news: "smart fences," $1m fundraiser, The Edge -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> 2008: Democrats: Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News columnized on Saturday about Sen. Clinton's positioning on immigration (border security first, "smart fences" may be helpful, no need for the planned May 1 boycotts) and came away impressed. LINK The New York Daily News' Derek Rose found an immigrant advocacy organization questioning Sen. Clinton's approach for a staggered reform effort. LINK Ian Bishop of the New ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 07:57:01 PDT 2006

16297 [lbo-talk] Nepal -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Fidel Castro supports Nepal king Weird. Is this out of solidarity with another old guy in power threatened by popular unrest, or is it more political than that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 23 05:50:15 PDT 2006

16298 [lbo-talk] Cornell rebrands -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Cornell's Worried Image Makers Wrap Themselves in Ivy It's a land-grant institution with a hotel school. Need I say more? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 15:16:33 PDT 2006

16299 [lbo-talk] right-winger loves the Euston manifesto -- rank: 1000

[Marc Cooper, formerly of The Nation? don't know anything about that - this ran in today's NY Post, though it's not on the Post's website] <http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=aba> "THE EUSTON MANIFESTO": PRINCIPLED LEFT CONSIDERS WAR ON TERROR by Austin Bay On July 7, 2005, at 9:47 a.m., a terror bomb destroyed London's number 30 bus en route from Euston Station to Russell Square. The bomb murdered 13 people. On May 7, 2005 -- two months before the terror attack ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 14:38:47 PDT 2006

16300 [lbo-talk] Fwd: 1970's redux and where do we go from here? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >So it ends up more like a tax than a way of inflating away debt. That's the standard Wall Street line, embraced by Bernanke. But there's a chance that inflation will sneak up on them, forcing a crackdown later this year or next. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 22 14:14:22 PDT 2006

16301 [lbo-talk] Fwd: 1970's redux and where do we go from here? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >But it's only being driven by oil this time. Core inflation isn't >particularly high. Inflation isn't built into the structure of wages >and prices like it used to be. No it's not. But Wall St is getting a little carried away looking only at the core (which excludes food & energy); that strips away almost a quarter of the index's market basket. The headline CPI is at 3.4% year-on-year, which is well above the 1-2% that used to be regarded as price stability. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 11:25:49 PDT 2006

16302 [lbo-talk] more LLR -- rank: 1000

<http://members.aol.com/abelard2/larouche.htm> "Thus, when we sing with Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and so on, we are expressing the essence of that playful domain in which the ontological essence of all art, and all morality, are supplied the ontological medium best suited to their expression. On this account, all great Classical music is, in its own way, sacred music, the soul's yearning toward its rightful, beautiful place in the simultaneity of eter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 10:19:13 PDT 2006

16303 [lbo-talk] aesthetic oddities -- rank: 1000

Searching for music to induce the infant Ivan to nap, I came across this LaRoucheian analysis of Brahms's Geistliches Wiegenlied (not his famous lullaby, but a later cradle-song): <http://members.aol.com/abelard2/geist.htm>. It apparently takes its inspiration from LaRouche's work on metaphor. Has anyone read LLR's aesthetic theory? Just why does he love Schiller so much? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 22 10:14:07 PDT 2006

16304 [lbo-talk] Re: Fwd: 1970's redux and where do we go from here? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >the most sensible establishment analyst, Stephen Roach >as for the global economy he is reliably permabearish So "sensible" = "permabearish"? I'm reminded of my late friend John Liscio's nickname for him from almost 15 years ago - "Stephen Roach 'Motel - the data check in but they don't check out.'" A cheap joke, yeah, but I don't see how a permabear could explain the rise of capitalism over the last, oh, eight centuries. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 22 09:48:22 PDT 2006

16305 [lbo-talk] Fwd: 1970's redux and where do we go from here? -- rank: 1000

tfast wrote: >I would want to add that all the analyses of Chinese labour markets that I >have read argue that, given the skill profile of employment in China, >Chinese manufacturers face an almost infinite supply curve for the forseable >future even at present growth rates. From this it would be hard to argue >that market mechanisms are likely to produce any kind of a wage and thus >inflation spiral in China. But the biz press is full of reports of labor shortages in China - ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 22 09:42:20 PDT 2006