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20956 [lbo-talk] looking for tech writers in bay area -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >You have my sympathy. Fortunately most of the business writing I've >done has been for general audiences. Whenever I've visited the >outskirts of technical or legal writing it has been a punishing >experience. I have really come to view this stuff as performing >unnatural acts on the English language. Somebody's gotta do it, and it should be done well. I finally took the plunge and upgraded my Mac from System 9.x to OS X. It's amazing how much modern softwar ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 2 09:09:07 PDT 2004

20957 [lbo-talk] Lesbo Goes to Muslim Bridal Shower -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >lesbo goes to muslim bridal shower Could you say something about why you forwarded this, and why you found it interesting? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 2 08:57:00 PDT 2004

20958 [lbo-talk] The Debate... -- rank: 1000

<http://www.debates.org/pages/natspons.html> National Debate Sponsors 2004 National Sponsors AARP American Airlines America's Charities Anheuser-Busch Companies The Howard G. Buffett Foundation Sheldon S. Cohen - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP Continental Airlines Discovery Channel EDS JetBlue Airways The Kovler Fund

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Date:	Sat Oct 2 08:31:09 PDT 2004

20959 [lbo-talk] Madonna to study lit "at" Oxford -- rank: 1000

The Sun (London) - October 1, 2004 Madonna's university challenge THERE are a few challenges left for MADONNA - and a university degree is one of them. Having pretty much conquered the world of pop, Madge is now set to read Literature at Oxford University. The Material Girl is to further her knowledge of British literary greats such as Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen by studying for a Bachelor of Arts qualification. But undergraduates should not get too excited about sharing halls of r ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 11:06:52 PDT 2004

20960 [lbo-talk] FW: World Bank for Sale on eBay! -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >The People of the World Auction World Bank on eBay: >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3752199872 Merde! >Invalid Item > >The item you requested (3752199872) is invalid, still pending, or no >longer in our database. Please check the number and try again. If >this message persists, the item has either not started and is not >yet available for viewing, or has expired and is no longer available.

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 10:44:23 PDT 2004

20961 [lbo-talk] a Simona: kidnappers "a very political, religious group" -- rank: 1000

[last graf contains the final nail in the coffin of the CIA-did-it story - distressing to see someone as smart as Naomi Klein having fallen for it] Freed Italian Hostage Says Iraq Rebels 'Justified' ROME (Reuters) - An Italian aid worker held hostage last month in Iraq (news - web sites) said guerrillas there were right to fight U.S.-led forces and their Iraqi "puppet government." In comments that were bound to annoy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government, Simona Torretta also c ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 07:54:40 PDT 2004

20962 [lbo-talk] Hard Work -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Bush mentioned "hard work" *eleven times* and said "working hard" >twice and "how hard it is" thrice in the first debate. Pretty funny for a guy who seems barely to have worked hard in his life. Legacy admission to Yale who clocked someething like a 72 average, military service in Air Canada, a business career where everything was given to him, the shortest workday of any modern president...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 07:20:05 PDT 2004

20963 [lbo-talk] Oct 19: women's buycott day -- rank: 1000

IMAGINE IF ON OCTOBER 19TH WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD DIDN'T BUY ANYTHING? CLICK on the attachment to read more about how on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, we are inviting you to leave your checkbook and credit cards at home as a symbolic gesture that we no longer "buy" the glacial pace of change for working women around the world. Instead of shopping, go for a walk in the park, write a letter to a friend, enjoy a museum, or help someone in need -- and join us at one of the "buycott" eve ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 07:14:41 PDT 2004

20964 [lbo-talk] Kerry vs Bush -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Gallup goes to Kerry. 53-37 or some such. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=13237> Kerry Wins Debate Viewers also more favorable to Kerry, but opinions about Iraq and military leadership still favor Bush by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- John Kerry won the debate Thursday night, 53% to 37%, according to a random sample of 615 registered voters who watched the event. Almost half of the viewers said they felt more favorable about the senator ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 07:10:09 PDT 2004

20965 [lbo-talk] ABC's InstaPoll -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS POLL: THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE - 9/30/04 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A Win for Kerry In the First Debate John Kerry won the first debate and with it a shot at reinvigorating his campaign for the presidency. But in the first blush, vote preferences among viewers were unmoved. Among a random sample of 531 registered voters who watched the debate, 45 percent called Kerry the winner, 36 percent said it was Bush, and 17 percent called it a tie. It was a clean win for Kerry: Independents by a ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 06:55:48 PDT 2004

20966 [lbo-talk] polls from yesteryear -- rank: 1000

[posted by Queens College prof Andrew Beveridge to AAPORnet] Four years ago, on October 27, 2000, a mere week and a half before the election, CNN said that polls from six major news sources -- CNN, USA Today, Gallup, ABC News and the Washington Post -- all found that George W. Bush was ahead in the popular vote. Some polls said Bush was substantially ahead. "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush holds a 49-to-43 percent edge over Democratic rival Al Gore in the ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 06:45:05 PDT 2004

20967 [lbo-talk] Challenge for leftists of all stripes -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The issue is less the corporations asserting a right to speak in some >forum -- although the advertising cases have massively cut the ability of >government to regulate corporate advertising -- but on the corporate right >NOT to speak or be forced to associate with speech they don't want to be >associated with. It allows companies to avoid public responsibilities where >they might be forced to "speak" to the public in ways they don't agree >wi ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 30 17:23:56 PST 2004

20968 [lbo-talk] computer question -- rank: 1000

Sorry to be a scold, but there's already enough volume on this list without providing lots of computer advice. Please contact Seth offlist if you can help him. Requests like that are fine, but it's best if the answers are kept private. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 30 14:36:27 PST 2004

20969 [lbo-talk] Re: god polls -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"...47 percent of John Kerry's voters think God created humans as they >are now..." > >now we need a poll of abb-ers, to see if that figure makes them feel >smugly superior, insufferably arrogant, or humbly prostrate... We don't need a poll of Frank Scott to know that he feels smugly superior to everyone! Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 30 12:15:52 PST 2004

20970 [lbo-talk] the overblown threat of Al Qaeda -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >A Dwarf Known as Al Qaeda >The threat posed by the group is hugely overblown. A friend who was at Davos a year or two ago said the consensus there was exactly this. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 30 12:02:22 PST 2004