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17071 [lbo-talk] the dynamic duo -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051031/henwood> The Nation - October 31, 2005 Bono Meets Dr. Shock by DOUG HENWOOD ne of the stranger duos in the performing arts hit New York City on October 5: Jeffrey Sachs and Bono. The economist delivered the inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan lecture at New York University, and the rock star was his warm-up act. Their common theme was the moral urgency of relieving African poverty, but all the fans and TV cameras dogging Bono made it easy to overlook th ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 06:23:23 PDT 2005

17072 [lbo-talk] Farrakhan invites gay speaker to MMM -- rank: 1000

Minister Farrakhan Invites Openly Gay Speaker to Millions More Movement Fulfills Earlier Promise and Starts Dialogue October 12, 2005 - Washington, DC - In an unprecedented first, Minister Louis Farrakhan asked NBJC Board President, Keith Boykin to address the attendees of the Millions More Movement. The invitation was a direct result of months of correspondence between the National Black Justice Coalition and the Nation of Islam and Movement organizers. On Wednesday, in downtown Washington, DC ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 21:10:23 PDT 2005

17073 [lbo-talk] "four walls are three too many" -- rank: 1000

Hmm. Google the phrase in quotes, follow some links, and the following turn up (I think I know where JL and BdL got it from): <http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/001710.html> "Indeed, war with Austria-Hungary made no sense for the Czar and his dynasty (which lost its throne and their lives) or for Russia's ruling class (which was, after the war, one of the groups about which the new government thought that the four walls of a prison were three walls too many). ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 18:56:21 PDT 2005

17074 [lbo-talk] blog! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Burstein, decades before becoming an investment advisor for the >Blackstone Group specializing in the PRC was cadre in the maoist group >that published The Call. Michael, you're a treasure. I forgive you all your bad formatting and temper tantrums. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 18:39:03 PDT 2005

17075 [lbo-talk] "four walls are three too many" -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >It seems that few of the famous apothegms attributed to Stalin have been >sourced with any certainty, including "the death of one man is a >tragedy; the death a million men is a statistic" and "the Pope? How >many divisions does he have?" Too bad: I hate using slogans I can't >cite with confidence, and I really want to use this one in a bit I'm >writing. Damn. Harold Bloom once wrote somewhere, "as Shelley should have said...&quo ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 18:38:32 PDT 2005

17076 [lbo-talk] blog! -- rank: 1000

I just got a review copy of the book Blog!, by David Kline and Dan Burstein. Burstein, who does the Secret of the Code thing, published a book called Yen! around 1989 that predicted that Japan would take everyone over, just before the Nikkei peaked. A couple of years later he wrote a book called Euroquake (no !), inspired by the 1992 single market hype, predicted it would be Europe's turn, just as European growth was turning towards 0. Now he's co-authored Blog! Draw your own conclusions. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 17:20:51 PDT 2005

17077 [lbo-talk] Dick Blow -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - October 13, 2005 Lowdown Lloyd Grove The Hotline blows: Writer Richard Bradley, whose name was Richard Blow when he edited George magazine years ago, has had just about enough of The Hotline referring to him as "Ex-Dick Blow Richard Bradley." Yesterday Bradley E-mailed Chuck Todd, editor of the D.C.-based political tip sheet: "It's true, of course, that my last name was Blow before I changed it, but no one ever called me Dick, at least not to my face, and I t ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 17:13:26 PDT 2005

17078 [lbo-talk] "four walls are three too many" -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >Does anyone have a source or citation for this remark that is attributed >to Dzhugashvilli? Thanks. I think I started circulating it. I got it from D.D. "Don" Guttenplan, now half of The Nation's London bureau, when he was working at the Village Voice about 15 years ago. Maybe one our Russian correspondents could factcheck it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 16:29:38 PDT 2005

17079 [lbo-talk] distinction -- rank: 1000

Culture Lab wrote: >What is Rock and Roll Confidential? Why'd it inspire you? A newsletter published by Dave Marsh. While reading it one day in the spring of 1986, I thought, I could do one of these! And so I did, though not about Rock and Roll. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 15:39:44 PDT 2005

17080 [lbo-talk] distinction -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >You have said that you were inspired by the Rock & Roll >Confidential. Is this validation? I hadn't thought of that angle, but in some sense, yeah.

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 09:14:19 PDT 2005

17081 [lbo-talk] distinction -- rank: 1000

Village Voice, Best of NYC, 2005 <http://www.villagevoice.com/bestof/?page=05_result&categ=Music&id=4888> Best Music on an Economics and Politics Radio Show - BEHIND THE NEWS You wouldn't expect a program devoted to the analysis of power and money to be peppered with killer tunes, but BEHIND THE NEWS rocks. The show, hosted by author and Left Business Observer editor Doug Henwood, never uses music as on-air filler. Henwood plays cuts-post-punk, Russian pop, out rock-that hit har ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 08:01:00 PDT 2005

17082 [lbo-talk] Mel Laird: we were winning in Vietnam, we could win in Iraq! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >P.S. When Laird spoke at a Republican dinner here back in '71 or so, >they had to sneak him in through the kitchen because we had the front >entrance to the Masonic Temple blocked with people plus a lot of >garbage. That was one of the fun demos. When I was Secretary of the Yale Political Union and a member of the Party of the Right, we invited Secretary of State William Rogers to come receive an award. He couldn't get anywhere near the Law School, where the award ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 18:26:18 PDT 2005

17083 [lbo-talk] Re: projection? -- rank: 1000

Culture Lab wrote: >speaking of Zizek: enjoy your symptom! I've got enough symptoms to deal with already, thanks! Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 17:41:13 PDT 2005

17084 [lbo-talk] Big Al fulminates -- rank: 1000

Gore: I Don't Plan to Run for President By MATTIAS KAREN, Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again, but he said the United States would be "a different country" if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack of the Bush administration. "I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again," Gore told reporters after giving a spee ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 17:06:25 PDT 2005

17085 [lbo-talk] Re: projection? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >maybe you could try, just once, not to be so personally petty? > >what is it with you, having to respond in such nasty fashion, to >anything i say? I find almost all your "contributions" to this list to be either bilious or wiseguyish, and they usually serve to position you as less naive, or more grounded, or just plain wiser than all the other naifs around here. The tone is "populist" and commonsensical, in the debased sense of those words. It ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 16:04:25 PDT 2005