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19096 [lbo-talk] Heilbroner dead -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 10 2005 Inspiration to generations of economists Robert Heilbroner, author of Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers and among the most influential economic historians of the 20th century, has died in New York. He was 85. Dr Heilbroner, who had suffered for the past three years with Lewy Body disease, a rare Alzheimer's-like illness, died of a stroke last Wednesday, according to his son, David. A professor at the New School in Ne ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 07:23:56 PST 2005

19097 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Applying Brakes to Benefits Gets Wide G.O.P. Backing But Kerry would have been worse, of course. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 07:14:37 PST 2005

19098 [lbo-talk] RE: Trotsky on Soviet planning -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I was thinking more of the Brezhnev years, which are >my general frame of reference, but you'd be surprised >the extent to which people were capable of >compartmentalizing things. (My own family managed to >support Hitler even though the Nazis sterilized one >family member and euthanized another.) Christian Parenti says that people he'd talked to who hated Saddam Hussein a year ago - including some who were tortured by his regime - now praise him to the skies ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 07:07:17 PST 2005

19099 [lbo-talk] N Korea wages war on long hair -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >The programme allowed men aged over 50 seven centimetres of upper >hair to cover balding. The NK government is encouraging combovers? This is the most appalling thing I've heard about it yet!

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 06:29:55 PST 2005

19100 [lbo-talk] SK vs. NK -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >How much China's foreign trade ($1 trillion in 04) contributes to >high growth rates? Lots. it's the major driver of Chinese growth, though the internal market isn't small. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 06:18:15 PST 2005

19101 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Finally, he did not have a >"double bottom" of the sort Andropov has been found to >have had. Huh? He liked to take it sexually from two tops? He looked like the chart of a stock that's about to take off? He didn't have all that fat an ass? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 9 10:11:01 PST 2005

19102 [lbo-talk] SK vs. NK -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Citation? I don't need a citation to say that free balance of payments financing in the range of 5% of GDP made a crucial difference in development - it's just a fact. Without it, SK would have had to impose domestic austerity or borrow large gobs of money abroad. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 9 10:09:05 PST 2005

19103 [lbo-talk] SUNDAY (TODAY) NYC MEETING Against Genetic Engineering -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >This is a very important meeting for NYC-Metro area activists. It is >NOT a forum or workshop, it is an activist meeting to plan Area-wide >campaigns against Genetic Engineering. Damn, you gotta announce these things earlier - how else could I plan a counterdemonstration? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 9 08:53:11 PST 2005

19104 [lbo-talk] SK vs. NK -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Would it have been impossible for SK to deal with their trade deficit in the >absence of US aid? Yes. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 9 08:36:23 PST 2005

19105 [lbo-talk] Fox wants Rastas! -- rank: 1000

[from the cultstud list] From: JSCASC <jscasc at international.ucla.edu> To: (Recipient list suppressed) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:44:36 -0800 Subject: Request for Fox Program Participants Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.2.20050107163449.01c05348 at pop.sscnet.ucla.edu> >From the unique, unusual, decidedly different request category: Forwarded from Rebecca Reczek - reczek at rocketsciencelabs.com The casting director for the Fox television show Trading Spouses is looking for families to par ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 9 08:31:52 PST 2005

19106 [lbo-talk] kvetching about Sontag's relation to the closet -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >... and that her most abiding love affair was with herself. There's a wonderful passage in an Edmund White novel, whose name escapes me, in which a thinly fictionalized version of Sontag and David Rieff enter a party, "all self-love and fabulousness." Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 8 07:11:52 PST 2005

19107 [lbo-talk] that's cold! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >While these lines are powerfully poignant, they help mask the fact >that there was heavy direct involvement in the events that unfolded >in Rwanda and later in the Congo from neighboring states, especially >Uganda, as well as Western countries particularly France and the >United States. I've always suspected that but know next to nothing about it. What's the story? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 7 13:31:52 PST 2005

19108 [lbo-talk] kvetching about Sontag's relation to the closet -- rank: 1000

DSR wrote: >And if the >measure of "outness" is newsprint gossip, there were some minor media >gossip spits and sputters about Leibovitz leaving her for a younger >woman, or having an affair with one -can't remember, don't care - a >couple of years or so ago. According to an item on Page Six in Feb 2003, Leibovitz ran off with the babysitter who'd been taking care of the child they had together. No word on the paternity or the technology involved, even though Leibovitz ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 7 13:18:10 PST 2005

19109 [lbo-talk] Re: Trotsky on Soviet Planning -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Will there be relics in LBO's new faith? We are tomorrow's relics. I'm about to post a Call for Apostles; interviews to begin next week. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 7 12:52:12 PST 2005

19110 [lbo-talk] kvetching about Sontag's relation to the closet -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >To this day, little rethinking on Yugoslavia has taken place in >liberal circles, and it's not clear why they think it is OK to do >"regime change" in Yugoslavia but not in Iraq. I don't agree with this, but I'd bet they'd say that intervening in Yugo was "stopping a genocide" with minimal damage to civilians - while the war in Iraq was a pointless aggression that's done violence to many civilians. Of course, the more important difference is ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 7 12:49:11 PST 2005