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17086 [lbo-talk] Mel Laird: we were winning in Vietnam, we could win in Iraq! -- rank: 1000

[who knew this guy was still alive?] IN THE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005 ISSUE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Iraq: The Lessons from Vietnam Former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird Speaks Out In a strikingly frank memoir-cum-analysis, former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird speaks out for the first time in many years. During Richard Nixon's first term, he argues, the United States managed to withdraw American forces while creating a viable South Vietnamese army. The same approach could work in Iraq today, he co ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 12:31:52 PDT 2005

17087 [lbo-talk] Re: shakespeare -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >if it turns out that he was gay, or jewish, or that his real name >was homer simpson, would it mean that hamlet, and romeo and juliet, >really suck? Could you try, maybe just once, to contribute something that's not petulant. smartass, or generally annoying? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 12:29:23 PDT 2005

17088 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare, Coke, Bacon, Egerton -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Joanna doesn't appreciate John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, who >(considering his early death) wrote a quite astounding body of great >poems. But in any case "aristocrat" (in the sense of titled nobility) is >too narrow a category. Milton came from a _very_ substantial family. >Byron doesn't count, but Shelley came from a substantial "gentleman's" >background. And wasn't Forster the only canonical Brit novelist of the 19th and early 20th cen ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 12:11:49 PDT 2005

17089 [lbo-talk] Fwd: bill maher advice to gw bush -- rank: 1000

Bill Maher on Harry Miers New Rule: George Bush must meet some new people. You know, when Americans see their president giving every job to the same old cronies, they use words like "loyal to a fault" and "stubborn" and "close-minded," "lives in a bubble," "sock-puppet," "asshole." "Worst president ever." But they're missing the point. The problem isn't his political philosophy - "kill people and animals and take their ga ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 11:52:16 PDT 2005

17090 [lbo-talk] Dad lobby endorses MMM -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: MONTY WARNER - 202-369-2902; monty at mwarnergroup.com STATEMENT FROM ROLAND C. WARREN PRESIDENT, NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE (www.fatherhood.org) 10/12/05 "On the eve of the Million More March, 7.5 million African- American children, 2 out of every 3, live in father-absent homes. As we ponder the power of a "million," I suggest that we consider the power and impact of a million more black men who are involved, responsible, and committed fathers w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 12 11:48:43 PDT 2005

17091 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare, Coke, Bacon, Egerton -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I have read that he >kept two circles of friends, one circle from the >legal and insurance worlds and the other circle >from the literary world. Not too surprisingly, >those two circles did not intersect. It's been a long time since I kept up on Stevens scholarship, but as I recall he made sure they didn't intersect. Most of his insurance colleagues had no idea that he even wrote poetry, much less that he was one of the all-time greats. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 11:47:31 PDT 2005

17092 [lbo-talk] Bush impeachment poll -- rank: 1000

Somebody finally did a serious Bush impeachment poll. Here's a summary - more details at original site <http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3528>: Poll: Americans Favor Bush's Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2005-10-11 12:46. Media NOTE WELL: The After Downing Street Coalition hired Ipsos Public Affairs to do this poll. Ipsos did not sponsor the poll, but was very helpful, cooperative, and professional. Please do NOT complain to them that they did ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 10:34:30 PDT 2005

17093 [lbo-talk] Zizek -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: >So the great man will be scabbing on the union projectionists, will he? Astra looked into this and sought extensive counsel before agreeing to show the film at the IFC Center. The projectionists don't want a union. There's no picket line and no boycott. If there were, she'd never have violated them. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 08:28:18 PDT 2005

17094 [lbo-talk] Zizek -- rank: 1000

John Norem wrote: >*Joker apart* > >James Harkin hears the cultural critic Slavoj Zizek's serious message > >*Saturday October 8, 2005 >The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk>* > >It is a sparkling Sunday morning in early autumn, and one of the >world's leading public intellectuals, dressed in a mod jacket and >sandals and swigging from a can of Diet Coke, is giving me the >benefit of his experience on cheap London hotels. "This one" - he >poi ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 06:48:22 PDT 2005

17095 [lbo-talk] Merrill: health costs as competitive disadvantage -- rank: 1000

[this is the entire text of a research note from Merrill Lynch this morning] Quant Analysis & Strat: Thought for the Day Analyst: Richard Bernstein Something to Watch: Health Care Becomes a "Competitive Disadvantage"? * We've recently noticed several corporations complain that they are at a competitive disadvantage operating in the US because of health care costs. These firms claim that it is to their advantage to employ workers outside the US or to cut US benefits because health ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 06:26:02 PDT 2005

17096 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare, Coke, Bacon, Egerton -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >So Stevens was a lawyer AND an insurance executive - a more unlikely >poet would be difficult to imagine. A fluke indeed. "Money is a kind of poetry," he wrote as one of the aphorisms in Adagia. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 06:12:15 PDT 2005

17097 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare, Coke, Bacon, Egerton -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Stevens did not merely have "legal training"; to begin with at least I >believe his work for the insurance company was legal work. I think he is >a valid instance of an attorney as poet. By the way, he'd dictate poems to his secretary at lunchtime. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 06:11:32 PDT 2005

17098 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare, Coke, Bacon, Egerton -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Mark Bennett wrote: > >> > 1) Practicing lawyers do tend to be short on poetry. >> >>Wallace Stevens? > >Actually he was in insurance. But you probably remembered that >right after you sent this :o) But he was a lawyer who worked for The Hartford - "the best surety bond man in the country," it was said of him. Another lawyer-poet (and long-time LBO subscriber), Lawrence Joseph, told me recently that suret ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 06:10:42 PDT 2005

17099 [lbo-talk] religion translator -- rank: 1000

<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21203> Faith Converter - 1.9 changes the religion of text Product Description: Found an admirable tome but it's in praise of the wrong god? Faith Converter is a godsend for priests, vicars, rabbii and holy men of all descriptions. Preach next Sunday's sermon from the Vedas, Noble Eightfold Path, Torah or Das Kapital! The premier theological plagiarism solution for OS X, Faith Converter converts text between twenty-seven different religions ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 12:41:35 PDT 2005

17100 [lbo-talk] sex in the military -- rank: 1000

[from my college class listserv] Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Director, The Information Society Project at Yale Law School Sexual Perversion in Rumsfeld's Pentagon Scott Horton from Prof. Jack Balkin's blog (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/index.htm) October 9, 2005 <http://balkin.blogspot.com/2005/10/sexual-perversion-in-rumsfelds.html> This week Capt. James Yee's book concerning his experiences in Guantanamo will hit America's bookstores. Th ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 12:24:52 PDT 2005