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18211 [lbo-talk] NYPress publisher: I'm not a weenie -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - March 7, 2005 'NY Press' Publisher Responds: He's Not a 'Spineless Alt-Weekly Weenie' NEW YORK New York Press Publisher Chris Rohland told E&P this afternoon that the reason for Editor Jeff Koyen's two-week suspension was not because he ran a controversial cover story last week poking fun at the possible demise of the Pope. In fact, Rohland acknowledged that he had vetted that satiric piece by Matt Taibbi before publication. The problem, he said, was that Koyen, agai ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 7 19:15:53 PST 2005

18212 [lbo-talk] Question: Source of High European/Relatively Low USUnemployment -- rank: 1000

Steven Gotzler wrote: >Doesn't the US calculate its unemployment numbers in a very >different way from many of the EU countries. Somewhat, but the difference persists even if you use comparable definitions - and employment/population ratios (the share of the adult pop working for pay) also stack up in the conventional way (US high, Europe low). Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 7 18:56:08 PST 2005

18213 [lbo-talk] more on Taibbi & the pope -- rank: 1000

NY Press secures its place in hell: <http://www.gawker.com/news/media/drudge/ny-press-secures-its-place-in-hell-034855.php> Koyen's parting shot: <http://www.gawker.com/news/media/commentary/jeff-koyens-exit-interview-035157.php> Schumer, Hillary, Bloomberg denounce piece as disgusting, etc.: <http://www.nydailynews.com/03-04-2005/front/story/286529p-245325c.html>

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Date:	Mon Mar 7 15:47:13 PST 2005

18214 [lbo-talk] New York Press and Karol Wojtyla -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Word is that Jeff Koyen is out as editor of the New York Press in the wake >of a furor over Matt Taibbi's pope-death column of last week, which I >thought was hilarious. Is Taibbi himself still going to be writing for the >Press? speaking of which, while it's still there <http://nypress.com/18/9/news&columns/taibbi.cfm>

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Date:	Mon Mar 7 15:37:09 PST 2005

18215 [lbo-talk] New York Press and Karol Wojtyla -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Word is that Jeff Koyen is out as editor of the New York Press in the wake >of a furor over Matt Taibbi's pope-death column of last week, which I >thought was hilarious. Is Taibbi himself still going to be writing for the >Press? You'd think not, wouldn't you? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 7 15:35:48 PST 2005

18216 [lbo-talk] U.S. Reports Accelerating Job Growth -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >BTW, do you have a take on the upward revisions to last quarter's >productivity -- or on the last 4 years of productivity growth in >general? It's averaged consistently higher during the last four >saggy-ass years than it did even during the wonder years of the 90s, >no? Does that have any bearing on the great productivity debate? See the postscript to After the New Economy, forthcoming in paper (New Press, May). Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 7 14:07:12 PST 2005

18217 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart as Robin Hood -- rank: 1000

[this is one of the most ingenious apologies for Wal-Mart ever devised - Robin Hood with parking...] New York Times - March 6, 2005 ON THE CONTRARY Welcome to Sherwood Forest, Er, Wal-Mart By DANIEL AKST THE recent bankruptcy filing of Winn-Dixie Stores, the supermarket chain, would seem to be the latest evidence that Wal-Mart, dreaded by competitors as retailing's 24-hour-a-day death star, has lost none of its price-cutting potency. The company's apparent invincibility is part of what galls its ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 7 14:06:01 PST 2005

18218 [lbo-talk] U.S. Reports Accelerating Job Growth -- rank: 1000

It was an ok jobs report, nothing spectacular. It's a measure of how crappy the labor market has been that a growth rate slightly above the long-term average (which would translate into about 230,000 at current employment levels) is taken as a big deal. Wages were stagnant. And the demographic skew of the new jobs, according to the household survey (the job-gain number comes from a survey of employers, which is separate from the survey of households) was quite downscale, with high school graduat ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 6 12:27:54 PST 2005

18219 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Voting glitches haunt statistician -- rank: 1000

[via AAPORnet] http://tinyurl.com/423r7 Voting glitches haunt statistician By Rob Zaleski - The Capital Times March 5, 2005 Brian Joiner wishes he could "just get over it." He wishes he could ignore the thousands of reported voting irregularities that occurred in the Nov. 2 election, accept the fact that George W. is going to be around another four years and just hope that we haven't created even more enemies or fallen even deeper into debt by the time 2008 rolls around. "I'm sure ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 6 11:48:38 PST 2005

18220 [lbo-talk] Japanese students can't place N.Korea -- rank: 1000

yellek wrote: >Japanese students can't place N.Korea > >Wed Feb 23, 3:08 AM ET > >TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites) has menaced Japan >with missiles, kidnapped its citizens and stands between it and a >place in the soccer World Cup finals, but one in four Japanese >high-school students can't place the country on a map. > > >Only 76 percent of high school pupils in a survey by an academic body >could locate the reclusive communist state, despite ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 4 16:04:44 PST 2005

18221 [lbo-talk] Japanese students can't place N.Korea -- rank: 1000

yellek wrote: >Japanese students can't place N.Korea > >Wed Feb 23, 3:08 AM ET > >TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites) has menaced Japan >with missiles, kidnapped its citizens and stands between it and a >place in the soccer World Cup finals, but one in four Japanese >high-school students can't place the country on a map. > > >Only 76 percent of high school pupils in a survey by an academic body >could locate the reclusive communist state, despite ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 4 16:03:33 PST 2005

18222 [lbo-talk] Yahoo! News Story - US Forces Wound Freed Italian Hostage in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Maybe just a mistake, but she happens to be a journalist for the far >left daily Il Manifesto. AFP says the Italian agent was killed after he threw himself in front of her to protect her. Will the coalition of the willing shrink further now? Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 4 13:43:53 PST 2005

18223 [lbo-talk] Chavez and socialism -- rank: 1000

Joel Wendland wrote: >Did someone already post this? > >http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/02/25/venezuela.chavez.reut/ This is great stuff. Why aren't Northern leftists paying more attention to Venezuela, which seems like the best thing happening in the world right now? I must try to find out more about what they're up to. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 4 12:43:08 PST 2005

18224 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: functionally literate -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I will state what I've said before: The US economic system doesn't >merely tolerate mediocrity, it insists on it. Quoting myself from After the New Economy, p. 75 (revised paperback edition, with a new 32-page afterword, coming in May!): >Why do employers and their mouthpieces keep talking about skills, >then? It may be that they mean something other than mental and/or >manual dexterity. Of course, formal training does impart certain >skills; there are no s ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 4 12:31:25 PST 2005

18225 [lbo-talk] U.S. working class: the younger, the smarter -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Her fourth post of the day, following a warning about eight yesterday and five on Wednesday. Yoshie, do you think the limits don't apply to you? Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 4 11:50:02 PST 2005