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20026 [lbo-talk] HRW calls for 9-11 style cover-up (?) -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted: >http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/25/1342206 > >REED BRODY: You know, we have called for a special prosecutor. I >think there needs -- Americans are obviously upset by the pictures >of Abu Ghraib, but I don't think there's yet a full appreciation >that Abu Ghraib was only the tip of the iceberg. I don't think >there's a full appreciation in the United States of how much damage >this scandal has done to the United States' reputation. ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 14:33:39 PDT 2005

20027 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Charles' shrewd observation implies, inter alia, that many "oppressed" are >better observers of social life than many those who do it professionally. By the way, one of the stricter dress codes I've ever seen in a non-fancy establishment was at the sports bar down the street from where Liza used to live in Bed-Stuy (<10% white, median income: $23,676). It forbade skullies, etc., and boiled down to: no gangsta wear. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 13:49:32 PDT 2005

20028 [lbo-talk] "5000 Worker March": activistism gives rise to planning meeting -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Any LBO-talkers and planners, theoreticians, empiricists and factcheckers, >have any idea on how to portray Wall$treet's relationship to Detroit ? Who >owns Detroit ? That's a good question. An old friend of mine who used to work at Newsday once tried to get the paper to fund an investigation of who owned Manhattan. They almost went for it but chickened out. Basically no one really knows who owns Manhattan (and the buildings and the land are generally owned by diff ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 13:44:28 PDT 2005

20029 [lbo-talk] Re: 5000 Worker March" -- rank: 1000

robert mast wrote: >Though I'm probably as skeptical as the next guy, why can't you at >least wish us well? Or is that somehow too painful, or outside >received wisdom? Shouldn't any reasonable worker-left effort >(however the lateness) be encouraged? I do wish you well, and I'll be happy to do my bit to promote the effort. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 13:11:04 PDT 2005

20030 [lbo-talk] AGF -- rank: 1000

Sometime list member Jeff Sommers has a nice obit/memorial for Andre Gunder Frank: <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=7729>. It's long, so I'm only posting the beginning. Doug ---- The Contradictions of a Contrarian: Andre Gunder Frank ......... by Jeff Sommers April 25, 2005 Among academic activists I know the two names most frequently cited for inspiring us to pursue our work are Noam Chomsky and Andre Gunder Frank. Yesterday we lost one of them in Andre ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 12:36:23 PDT 2005

20031 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >This is still an interesting example of gender stratification, though: >for a man, these comments are amusing, and have no bearing on >judgments of competence. As Kel points out, it's a different story >for women in the same position. For what it's worth, a classic <http://nber.org/papers/w4518>: Beauty & the Labor Market Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jeff E. Biddle NBER Working Paper No. 4518* Issued in November 1993 NBER Program(s): LS ---- Abstract ----- ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 12:31:53 PDT 2005

20032 [lbo-talk] The Suicide of New Left Review -- rank: 1000

I let my sub to NLR lapse shortly after Perry Anderson took it over. (Robin Blackburn refused to do a sub trade with LBO, unlike Jim Grant of Grant's Interest Rate Observer; maybe he thought it was too ugly. In any case, I had a paid sub for over 20 years.) I didn't like his political line, and thought the first few issues under his editorship were disappointing - and I thought under Blackburn's editorship it was pretty excellent most of the time. So I don't know what's become of it in recent ye ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 12:22:41 PDT 2005

20033 [lbo-talk] "5000 Worker March" -- rank: 1000

robert mast wrote: >We'll learn more on May 14-15 when Detroit will host a national MWM >get-together that should bring folks together from both coasts and >points in between for a National Reportback & Networking Meeting >with the purpose of "Building the Movement." That's an entierly different story. Shouldn't that sort of thing have preceded the march rather than following it by 7 or 8 months? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 11:16:47 PDT 2005

20034 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Lots of X are Y. > >Gee whiz. > >That also means that lots of X are NOT Y. By the way, how do Marxian class categories fare under this critique? You're the one who wants to flatten all the contradictions within the working class, right? Or is that different. >This thread represents a new low in deliberate banality on this list. Feel free to debanalize by introducing another topic of conversation. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 11:11:18 PDT 2005

20035 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Challenger Release: Steep Debt Forces Grads Back To Nest; Signed Contract May Help Limit Stay -- rank: 1000

CHALLENGER, GRAY & CHRISTMAS, INC. DATE April 25, 2005 For Release Upon Receipt Improved Job Market Will Not Spare Parents -- Solution STEEP DEBT FORCES GRADS BACK TO NEST; SIGNED CONTRACT MAY HELP LIMIT STAY NEW YORK -- Despite this being the best entry-level job market in several years, a surprisingly large portion of this year's college graduates plans to return home to live with their parents - nearly two out of three by some counts. It is a deci ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 10:19:39 PDT 2005

20036 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Why do we have to continue to suffer Cox? Have you ever thought of banning >him, Doug? "Deliberate banality?" He's funny. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 10:12:10 PDT 2005

20037 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >don't even bother clicking if you do not use a web browser that is out >of the stone ages Browser snob! Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 10:11:00 PDT 2005

20038 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Lots of X are Y. > >Gee whiz. > >That also means that lots of X are NOT Y. > >This thread represents a new low in deliberate banality on this list. How right you are. How people present themselves to others is meaningless and uninteresting. And since we're all individuals, generalizations are a form of epistemic violence. What we really should be discussing is things like the 5000 Worker March, that help us enumerate our strengths, and how to work for that ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 10:04:49 PDT 2005

20039 [lbo-talk] drugs & deaths -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >People are not >afraid of driving even though they chances of dying in a car crash are >considerably higher than dying in any other mode of transportation - because >cars are a key part of the mainstream culture, and thus their benefits are >cognitively augmented, while their costs are cognitively diminished. Ditto >for "legal" drugs such as alcohol, caffeine, or cigarettes. By contrast, >public transit and "illegal" drugs are ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 08:00:41 PDT 2005

20040 [lbo-talk] The Suicide of New Left Review -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >- are you suggesting that articles of value only if they are 'new'? Not at all, but since NLR is still alive 5 years after its supposed suicide, the piece might need some updating. Doug

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