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18541 [lbo-talk] Yale -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >I don't know, but it's a younger school than Hahvahd. Yeah, its 1701 founding makes it a virtual arriviste!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 17:06:31 PDT 2005

18542 [lbo-talk] Yale -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >From the time of Wm. G. Sumner, Yale has been a bulwark of the right >-- perhaps >moreso than any ivy league college [Dartmouth never had much >influence]. Why Yale? Well, Brown's the hippie/hipster Ivy, and Columbia's in New York, so that rules them out. But the POR was - and still is, I think - pretty marginal at Yale, where the dominant ideology is classic academic liberalism. Princeton always seemed more culturally conservative to me. So I'm not sure you ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 30 17:05:22 PDT 2005

18543 Fwd: [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 16:14:08 PDT 2005

18544 [lbo-talk] POR testimonials -- rank: 1000

<http://www.partyoftheright.org/quotes.htm> What is the Party of the Right? "The Party of the Right is a group of people who prefer a bad paradox to a good cliche." Andrei Navrozov Former Publisher, Yale Literary Magazine Translator, Second Nature: Forty-Six Poems by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak "Within the minority of those who think, we are the minority of those who think for pleasure. We believe the only joy intellect can bring is feeling itself alive." Richard Antony ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 15:46:13 PDT 2005

18545 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Critique of Postone -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:32:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Subject: Critique of Postone This is to let you know that I have posted a critique of Moishe Postone's book Time, Labor and Social Domination (1993; 2003 reprint) on the Break Their Haughty Power web site http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner Scroll to bottom to "Book Review" section. Loren

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 15:24:24 PDT 2005

18546 [lbo-talk] Basayev -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >2) What would be the reaction if bin Laden were >refered to as an "Arab rebel leader"? Reuters calls him "the Saudi militant." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 13:53:40 PDT 2005

18547 [lbo-talk] Basayev -- rank: 1000

Why not air an interview with anyone? I'd love to see Ted Koppel interview ObL! Doug Chris Doss wrote: >About a year or so ago I read an interview with >Al-Jazeera's Moscow bureau chief. He said he wasn't >willing to air an interview even with Yandarbiyev, >that he wouldn't give airtime to such scum. > >--- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Ditto Chris!!! >> >> I am beside myself concerning this interview! The >> ABC ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 30 13:50:22 PDT 2005

18548 [lbo-talk] "I pledge allegiance to the UN... -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Luckily, Jesuits have a sense of humor... Do they believe in God? If so, in what sense? I've heard that it's standard in liberal Catholic & Protestant seminaries to treat god & the bible as metaphors. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 13:48:37 PDT 2005

18549 [lbo-talk] Tex gov race -- rank: 1000

So McClellan's mother is running against Perry. Who's W supporting? And who's Rove supporting? How's McC handle the contradictions? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 30 12:39:13 PDT 2005

18550 [lbo-talk] Sheik on the A Train -- rank: 1000

<http://www.radaronline.com/web-only/radar-undercover/2005/07/arab-on-the-a-tra in.php> Arab on the A Train The NYPD has started searching subway passengers. We sent our most dogged reporter to get the scoop. by Gersh Kuntzman gersh.kuntzman at verizon.net 7/28/05 When New York City police began "randomly" searching subway passengers last week in the wake of the London bombings, a question leapt to your humble reporter's mind: Would the cops target people who look Arab, or wou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 11:35:53 PDT 2005

18551 [lbo-talk] Texas Minuteman Head Quits, Citing Racism in Group -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson quoted: >Texas Minutemen head quits, cites racism in group And the Minutemen's original impulse wasn't racist? What fine distinctions he's drawing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 09:33:04 PDT 2005

18552 [lbo-talk] Bitch on The Split -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >The Teamsters as a force for structural change in unions? Happy 30th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance! Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 30 09:27:49 PDT 2005

18553 [lbo-talk] Man-on-dog -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Sam Smith -- the state representative for Punsxutawney Is that the place famous for its groundhog? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 30 09:22:02 PDT 2005

18554 [lbo-talk] NYDN: Post story on OBL a crock -- rank: 1000

[ah, tabloid rivalry!] New York Daily News - July 28, 2005 Feds snort at Post's coke tale Federal drug agents are discrediting a New York Post front-page story that Osama Bin Laden tried to buy tons of Colombian cocaine to spike with poison and resell to Americans. In a blaring story Tuesday headlined "Bin Laden Coke Plot," Post reporter Dan Mangan claimed the Drug Enforcement Administration was investigating the scheme. But that was news to DEA officials. "The New York Post has r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 29 13:09:01 PDT 2005

18555 [lbo-talk] Fitch on The Split -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So is he also going to toss the Building Trades as not "really workers" >because they are on government Davis-Bacon government funded work? > >Or is it only "womens work" taking care of the disabled and elderly that's >not really labor. > >This is one of the most sexist pieces of crap I've ever seen. Pisses me off >to no end that as labor is struggling mightly to get child care, home health >care, domestic work and other femal ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 12:56:08 PDT 2005