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18901 [lbo-talk] Wall Street, thinking constructively -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch's morning memo, by chief economist David Rosenberg (who replaced URPE alum Bruce Steinberg a year or two ago)] We can understand the widespread skepticism, especially after yesterday's insurgent attacks that left nearly a dozen Iraqis and an American marine dead (and at the same time posting a video on the internet of the assassination of a candidate for Sunday's election). But we think that if you go back to the first U.S. election, it wasn't such a smooth ride either.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 08:00:28 PST 2005

18902 [lbo-talk] Wall Street bonuses -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gothamgazette.com/print/1306> Wall Street Bonus Babies by Andrew Beveridge 28 Jan 2005 Every year at this time, wine sellers take out their $500 bottles of Bordeaux; car dealers expect a rush on $100,000 Bentleys, Porsches and Lamborghinis; real estate agents witness perfectly normal-looking people plunking down several million dollars -- in cash -- to buy an apartment. "I call them ego apartments," one agent told the New York Sun. It is bonus time on Wall Street, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:21:49 PST 2005

18903 [lbo-talk] NYC's "City Journal" magazine? -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >I have a question: What is the scoop on the City >Journal magazine of New York? Sponsored by the Manhattan Institute, a right-wing think tank. I haven't looked at an ish in a while, but as I remember, it sucks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:18:51 PST 2005

18904 [lbo-talk] Re: cushy life/strict equality -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Carl writes: > >> "You're forgetting our new national motto: Arbeit Macht Frei." > >What does the motto mean and where did it come from? >(translations into English help us monoliguists) Work makes [one] free in German, famous for being the inscription on the entrance gate at Auschwitz. Though, as the pix at <http://www.rudyfoto.com/hol/arbeit.html> show, it was also at other concentration camps. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 16:38:45 PST 2005

18905 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Eugene Vilensky wrote: >Any limits on words/bytes per post? I set mailman to bounce anything over 15k, though I sometimes approve those. Otherwise, conciseness (and trimming of quoted material!) strongly suggested. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 15:48:53 PST 2005

18906 [lbo-talk] cushy life/strict equality/human nature -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: Another post. I'm counting now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 15:42:50 PST 2005

18907 [lbo-talk] cushy life/strict equality/human nature -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Whatever happened to the >abolition of the fucking wage system? Oh, you know, Reagan, Thatcher, the collapse of the USSR, Clinton signing the welfare bill, etc.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 12:07:15 PST 2005

18908 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Several posters are way overposting. The limit is three a day. I'm starting to count right now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 11:44:05 PST 2005

18909 [lbo-talk] NY radio pokes fun at tsunami victims -- rank: 1000

Sujeet Bhatt wrote: >As the protests built last week, Hot 97 first played it cool. >Morning team member Miss Info, who is of Asian descent, distanced >herself from the song, but Hot 97 played it and posted it on the >station website. > >"That song is really offensive to me, and I opted not to involve >myself," Miss Info said. > >Jones replied, "I know you feel you're superior because you're >Asian, but you're not." Later, co-host Todd Lyn, incens ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 11:32:37 PST 2005

18910 [lbo-talk] today's birthdays -- rank: 1000

[from Tom Heald's daily Pridelets email] At 11:01 AM -0700 1/27/05, Thomas Heald wrote: > * "Venus in Furs" novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (the German author >for whom "masochism" was named) would be 169. > * Charles Lutwidge Dodgson AKA author Lewis Carroll would be 171.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 10:58:23 PST 2005

18911 [lbo-talk] cushy life/strict equality -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >What happened to all of the communes of the 1960s that >attempted strict egalitarianism? <http://www.ic.org/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 10:51:13 PST 2005

18912 [lbo-talk] Krauthammer - you don't even need to pay him! -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - January 26, 2005 Krauthammer Consulted on Inaugural, Then Praised It By Dave Astor NEW YORK Liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America says columnist Charles Krauthammer praised President Bush's Jan. 20 inauguration speech on TV without disclosing his role consulting on the speech. Krauthammer's syndicate responded this morning. When Krauthammer was among a group of people invited to the White House Jan. 10, "he did not get the sense that this was an exercise ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 10:20:06 PST 2005

18913 [lbo-talk] FT: Family Values are Destroying Marriage -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >IIRC, most divorces happen within first 10 years, the nexest highest >occurance is around the 25 yr mark (don't quote me on that last, I >just remember that there's usually a bump that corresponds with the >time kids leave the nest). I can't remember where I got these stats from - some CDC pub, I think - but I put them together when I did a page of graphics for The Nation's marriage issue. Here's what they call the "probability of disruption" of marriage ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 08:56:04 PST 2005

18914 [lbo-talk] White House wants to scrap civil service rules -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 27, 2005 Civil Service System on Way Out at DHS White House Wants All Agencies to Have Option of Setting Own Personnel Policies By Christopher Lee Washington Post Staff Writer The Bush administration unveiled a new personnel system for the Department of Homeland Security yesterday that will dramatically change the way workers are paid, promoted, deployed and disciplined -- and soon the White House will ask Congress to grant all federal agencies similar authority to rewr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 08:49:52 PST 2005

18915 [lbo-talk] FT: Family Values are Destroying Marriage -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>MARRIAGES & DIVORCES PER 1,000 PEOPLE, 2001 >> >> marriages divorces div/mar >> >>Massachusetts 6.4 2.4 37.5% >>New York 7.9 3.0 38.0% >> >>Alabama 9.6 5.3 55.2% >>Mississippi 6.7 5.4 80.6% >>Texas 9.4 4.1 43.6% >> >>Ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 08:45:18 PST 2005