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20161 [lbo-talk] was Wal-Mart bribing union officials? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 8, 2005 Petty Cash A Wal-Mart Legend's Trail of Deceit Mr. Coughlin Told Others Bogus Expenses Hid Plot Against Unions Retailer Disputes His Claim By JAMES BANDLER and ANN ZIMMERMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Last November, Thomas M. Coughlin, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s vice chairman, approached a lieutenant with an unusual request. He wanted Jared Bowen to approve around $2,000 in expense payments without any receipts. Mr. Bowen, then ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 8 10:11:16 PDT 2005

20162 [lbo-talk] Spain to require men to clean toilets, change diapers -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - April 8, 2005 Blow to machismo as Spain forces men to do housework Giles Tremlett in Madrid Spanish men will have to learn to change nappies and don washing-up gloves under the terms of a new law designed to strike a blow at centuries of Latin machismo. The law, due to be passed this month, is likely to provoke a revolution in family affairs in a country where 40% of men reportedly do no housework at all. It will oblige men to "share domestic responsibilities and the car ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 8 09:59:25 PDT 2005

20163 [lbo-talk] Christians dismayed by news Rapture has already happened -- rank: 1000

<http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/03/news_that_the_r.html> News that the 'Rapture' Has Come and Gone Alarms Many Christians What if the 'Rapture' happened but you were left behind? That's what millions of Christians are wondering amid mounting evidence that the Rapture, the much-anticipated event in which God summons his faithful to the heavens, may have happened earlier this month. Among the startled 'still here': House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, just one of the political leaders wh ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 8 09:52:45 PDT 2005

20164 [lbo-talk] the new Summers -- rank: 1000

[excerpts from a Boston Globe article from another list] Summers displays new understanding of women's careers By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff, April 8, 2005 CAMBRIDGE -- Addressing a symposium last night on women in science, Harvard University's president, Lawrence H. Summers, could hardly have sounded more transformed from the man who discussed the same issue in January In contrast to his January comments, he spoke last night at length about research on ''implicit bias." He describe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 8 08:39:53 PDT 2005

20165 [lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video" -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >FWIW: > >http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/3/22/135029/283 And in case people didn't follow that link here's what it says: >Schindler lawyer Pat Anderson "was paid directly" by the >anti-abortion Life Legal Defense Foundation, which "has already >spent over $300,000 on this case," according to the foundation's Web >site. Much of the support for Life Legal Defense Foundation, in >turn, comes from the Alliance Defense Fund, an anti-gay rights g ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 8 08:18:06 PDT 2005

20166 [lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video" -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >And I'll say once more that the trial wasn't fair. If it were a >criminal on death row you would have less of a bias towards the >"justice" system. Many - mabye close to all - the convicts on death row had crappy legal representation. I don't think that's true in this case. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 7 13:06:46 PDT 2005

20167 [lbo-talk] Wall Street unleashed -- rank: 1000

Ok, I've posted an Acrobat version of my book Wall Street: How It Works and For Whom on the web. It's released under a Creative Commons license, which allows it to be recirculated freely for noncommercial purposes with full credit to the author and no alterations to the document allowed. The download page is <http://www.wallstreetthebook.com/>. For those so inclined, there's a Paypal button that will make it very easy to contribute to a badly undercompensated author. Enjoy! -- Doug Henwood ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 7 12:46:45 PDT 2005

20168 [lbo-talk] Delong puts the smackdown on ol' Whiskers -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: 5 posts so far today, following 11 yesterday. The limit is 3. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 7 11:45:55 PDT 2005

20169 [lbo-talk] speaking of the state of economics -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >LOL just like a Harvard economist to steal a truck load of shit. I was surprised that there wasn't enough home production at the Harvard econ department, that he had to import some more!

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Date:	Thu Apr 7 08:07:21 PDT 2005

20170 [lbo-talk] How Terri Schiavo became big news -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >It all comes down to that core point. As far as I'm concerned, there's >no legitimate state interest. Why is it assumed that her spouse has the >right to pull the plug? Oh, maybe eons of legislation and precedent? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 7 07:48:01 PDT 2005

20171 [lbo-talk] speaking of the state of economics -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 7, 2005 Harvard Economist Is Accused of Trying to Steal Farm's Gross Domestic Product By PIPER FOGG Martin L. Weitzman has a Ph.D. in economics, tenure at Harvard University, and an endowed chair, but what he really wanted was a truckload of free manure. A police officer in Rockport, Mass., said on Wednesday that Mr. Weitzman was arrested and charged with trespassing, larceny under $250, and malicious destruction of property for attempting to ste ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 7 07:39:42 PDT 2005

20172 [lbo-talk] DN!, WSWS & the Pope -- rank: 1000

Oh, and speaking of that reactionary old bastard, I read in NY Press a few weeks ago that there's a ritual examiniation of the genital package of a new pope to make sure he's not a she. Does anyone know if this is really true? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 7 07:11:37 PDT 2005

20173 [lbo-talk] DN!, WSWS & the Pope -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/pope-a06.shtml > >Notwithstanding his right-wing views, John Paul >II was always deeply conscious that the Church >can fulfil its function as a prop of the >established order only if it postures as a >protector of the oppressed. He wrote numerous >texts on Catholic social doctrine in which he >denounced capitalist excesses and social evils. >On a journey to Cuba, he sharply criticised >neo-liberalis ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 7 07:10:50 PDT 2005

20174 [lbo-talk] Monopoly power and prices -- rank: 1000

lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >Well, there are well-coordinated oligopolies like the oil producers, right? How are they coordinated? Crude prices are set on spot and futures markets. They do restrict refinery capacity to keep supplies tight, but that's not the major determinant of prices. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 6 14:27:42 PDT 2005

20175 [lbo-talk] Delong puts the smackdown on ol' Whiskers -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >If that were true, why don't we have deflation? Chinese demand for commodities plus Alan Greenspan's (former) rock-bottom interest rate policy. >And wouldn't SUV pricing be a pretty major example of corporate price >gouging? SUVs are pick-ups with hugely marked-up gimmicks atop, right? The >8 or 10 firms that sell them certainly conspire to leave this balloon >unpopped, don't they? Conspire how? If they were gouging, why is GM on the verge of becoming a ju ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 6 11:47:20 PDT 2005