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17311 [lbo-talk] placebos & the brain -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of HIgher Education - web daily - November 21, 2005 Placebos Could Play a Role in Treating Some Conditions, Scientists Say By LILA GUTERMAN Washington The placebo effect -- it's all in your head. When you swallow sugar pills instead of powerful medicine and your symptoms disappear, it's all thanks to the power of your mind. How does the brain perform that parlor trick? In the past, scientists suspected that any apparent health benefits from placebos had little more basis in biology tha ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 21 07:57:22 PST 2005

17312 [lbo-talk] in case you forgot how much of a scumbag Clinton is -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - November 21, 2005 Bill on Iraq war: 'It still can work' The war in Iraq can still succeed, and the time isn't right for a pullout, former President Bill Clinton told a Westchester Community College reception yesterday. "We should all want this enterprise to work, and there's a lot of evidence it still can work," Clinton said, noting that a higher percentage of Iraqis than Americans voted in the last elections. The former President said he respects Democratic Rep. ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 21 07:41:40 PST 2005

17313 [lbo-talk] NO: feds'll pay only for Cat 3 -- rank: 1000

[via The Note] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/20/AR2005112001167.html> In a profile of Donald Powell, the federal coordinator of the Gulf Coast rebuilding project, the Washington Post's Hsu and O'Hara Note that he disagreed with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco last week about whether the government would rebuild the levees to withstand a Category 3 or a Category 5 hurricane. "The commitment is to build the levees back to a three . . . an then to study the ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 21 07:40:15 PST 2005

17314 [lbo-talk] going after Murtha -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Roll Call's John Bresnahan reported for the newspaper's Web site on Friday that Republican lawmakers are saying that ties between Murtha and his brother's lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, "may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee."

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Date:	Mon Nov 21 07:33:20 PST 2005

17315 [lbo-talk] Nathan, meet Joe Klein -- rank: 1000

Nathan, how's your position different from Joe Klein's <http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,1132784,00.html>? Doug ---- Think Twice About a Pullout Will a withdrawal increase the threat of another terrorist attack at home? There was a profound change in the debate over Iraq in Washington last week. The central issue is no longer how best to prosecute the war, but how best to leave it. This appeared true for many of President Bush's strongest supporters and even for some ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 21 07:32:07 PST 2005

17316 [lbo-talk] the Dems root about for an Iraq policy -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - November 20, 2005 NEWS ANALYSIS Democrats' War Opposition Not a United Front Party lawmakers who have rallied around a general push to pull troops from Iraq still disagree on what remedies to offer, if any. By Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Last week's emotional congressional debates over Iraq demonstrated the rise of antiwar sentiment among Democrats - and the challenge the party faces in converting that impulse into a unified alternative to President Bus ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 21 07:26:36 PST 2005

17317 [lbo-talk] Judy: the $3m goodbye? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 21, 2005 GOLDEN CHUTE HOW big is Judith Miller's severance package from the New York Times? The guesses range as high as $3 million. The Pulitzer Prize winner was forced to quit after 28 years at the Gray Lady - and 85 days in jail because she wouldn't give up a source to the federal prosecutor who ultimately indicted Lewis "Scooter" Libby. One source says Miller was paid three years salary in severance, plus three years as a bonus, plus Times health ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 21 06:52:29 PST 2005

17318 [lbo-talk] Randy gay youth -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Pug] Ayn Rand among Gay Youth By <http://www.indegayforum.org/authors/varnell/index.html> Paul Varnell Ayn Rand's work enjoys surprising popularity among gay youth. The author explores why. A WELL-INFORMED FRIEND asked me recently why Ayn Rand is so popular among young gays and lesbians. "Is she?" I asked. He assured me that he keeps running into young gay Rand fans in social circumstances and on the Internet. Just recently a gay man visiting his home page told him h ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 21 06:48:37 PST 2005

17319 [lbo-talk] Sharon shakes things up -- rank: 1000

[what, if anything, does this mean?] Israel's Sharon unleashes political earthquake By Allyn Fisher-Ilan Sun Nov 20, 6:34 PM ET JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will quit his ruling Likud ahead of snap elections and form a new centrist party, to completely reshape Israeli politics and peacemaking, a source in his office said on Sunday. Sharon will tear apart the movement he helped found to break from the far-right Likud "rebels" who opposed his withdrawal from the occu ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 20 19:42:33 PST 2005

17320 [lbo-talk] A Pathetic Congress (and Opposition) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >-How is pointing to the political paralysis of the Dems making the war >-party's talking points? > >Because your bellyaching tries to highlight continued support for the war, >rather than the emergence this week of more significant opposition to the >war then was thought. > >Do you want the headline this week to be-- Opposition Democrats still >Support Bush's War > >Or would you rather have the headline be--- Even 37-Year Veteran Marine > ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 20 14:26:50 PST 2005

17321 [lbo-talk] We do not need an exit strategy. We need an exit. -- rank: 1000

Yup. This is more pissing match than debate. Travis Fast wrote: >This all getting a little Narcissistic and by definition self indulgent. > >Chuck0 wrote: > >>Nathan Newman wrote: >> >>>You should refrain from this kind of "you're on the payroll" style >>>attacks yourself. >>> >> >>Jesus Christ. I'm just using the metaphor to insult Michael. He's >>the one mouthing spineless Democrat talking points. >> >>C ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 20 14:19:42 PST 2005

17322 [lbo-talk] Dr. Hoare Embraces A Bold Tommorow (was, Chomsky v Marko) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Grab that copy of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks off your shelves. >Marko's Dad, Quentin, from the New Left Review editorial board of the >70's, wrote the 100 pg. or so introduction. So? The son has demonstrated himeslf right here to be pretty awful, and anyone who's a fellow of an institute named for Scoop Jackson is almost by definition toxic. He signed off, by the way. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 20 12:02:58 PST 2005

17323 [lbo-talk] A Pathetic Congress (and Opposition) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But you want to highlight tactical differences in approach to ending the >war, rather than emphasizing unity. Of course, the New York Times has the >same goal, so they choose to play up relatively minor differences in tactics >on the resolution. > >Which is my original point-- folks here on LBO are mouthing the talking >points of the pro-war forces. Oh please. What unity? They're stymied. The Times is reporting differences that are far from minor: > ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 14:59:39 PST 2005

17324 [lbo-talk] Instinct -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >What is wierd is that he can also write in a boring style & then >suddenly shift to >this sort of mode. That's kind of beautiful sometimes. I love it when he's going on about money, and then has what Geoffrey Hartman once called a Shelleyan screech about blood and soil. Or quote Pindar as a gloss on English factory reports. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 13:55:23 PST 2005

17325 [lbo-talk] A Pathetic Congress (and Opposition) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I find it hard to believe that someone as knowledgeable and intelligent >as Nathan can peddle this sort of fantasy. I refuse to believe that >anyone can be so ignorant as to dream that the u.s. will ever, under any >conditions, support economic reconstruction in Iraq. This is the >flimsiest possible cover-up for continued U.S. assaults on the lives and >dignity of the Iraqi people. Yup. Couldn't agree more. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 19 13:53:12 PST 2005