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22831 [lbo-talk] Blair wins, dammit -- rank: 1000

["Mr Blair made it clear he was not prepared to give ground on the key issue of allowing universities to charge variable fees." How about that as a stand on principle - market-based competition in higher ed?!?!?!] FT.com - seventeen minutes ago Blair wins vote on top-up fees By Christopher Adams, Political Correspondent, Ben Hall at Westminster and FT staff Tony Blair, UK prime minister, on Tuesday narrowly survived a knife-edge vote in the House of Commons on the introduction of tuiti ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 11:53:48 PST 2004

22832 [lbo-talk] 2 cnn employees killed by resistance fighters -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Surely u.s. deaths are as humorous as uppity women or over-sensitive >blacks. And you - you're funnier than Henny Youngman. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 27 11:42:45 PST 2004

22833 [lbo-talk] British economy -- rank: 1000

Can anyone explain what the leading dynamic sector(s) of the British economy is/are? I've asked several people on my visit here - the financial editor of the Times said "consumption," the editor of the Times said "housing." Manufacturing is dead. The IT sector is small compared to the U.S. What's kept the country out of recession and keeps it growing? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 11:33:56 PST 2004

22834 [lbo-talk] Heartfield interviews Henwood -- rank: 1000

<http://www.audacity.org/Book%20Review%2005.htm> Doug Henwood interview by James Heartfield about After the New Economy

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 27 10:50:51 PST 2004

22835 [lbo-talk] RE: NASA -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Didn't the Last Poets write a talk-song about "whitey on the moon." Gil Scott-Heron. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 27 10:40:36 PST 2004

22836 [lbo-talk] America goes homophobic -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/focus/sr040127.asp> Homosexual Relations Between Consenting Adults Forty-nine percent of Americans say homosexual relations between consenting adults should not be legal, compared with 46% who say they should be. These results, obtained in the Jan. 9-11 poll, have changed dramatically over the past year. In early May 2003, 60% of Americans said homosexual relations should be legal. This percentage dropped to 50% in mid-July, following the Supreme Court decision ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 27 10:35:28 PST 2004

22837 [lbo-talk] RE: NASA -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >So, there's sublimity and learning aplenty at our fingertips. But I >think its silly to squander billions of dollars on NASA's deep-space >boondoggles. In an $11 trillion economy, the NASA budget is a rounding error. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 10:31:17 PST 2004

22838 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris responds -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> How can one really be a leftist and advocate an ethnically based state? > >Just about every leftist in Central and Eastern Europe does that. Your >friend Slavoj, for example, is from a state that defines citizenship based >on the jus sanguinis. I don't know how much SZ approves of this - I refined my dislike of nationalism by reading Tarrying With the Negative and watching him comment on Laibach in tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 27 01:02:29 PST 2004

22839 [lbo-talk] Re: Undecided Until the Last Minute Re: Dean'sSelf-Demolition -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >When the three or four people who have provided most of the energy for >our local group began to run out of energy and time, one of them >established the principle that a person should only suggest activities >which he/she was prepared to do the work on: recruit the people, plan >it, advertise it, etc. I really don't think anyone should issue >diagnoses of what is "wrong" with THE LEFT" who isn't prepared to go out >there and correct it (by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 17:51:33 PST 2004

22840 [lbo-talk] shiv Sena & Mumbai -- rank: 1000

Hmm, so what should good anti-fascists call it? I still want to say Leningrad; St Petersburg sticks in my craw. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 17:50:19 PST 2004

22841 [lbo-talk] RE: NASA -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Then you could just do unmanned space probes. Michio Kaku says that you >will get far more science and much less military. I completely agree. The manned stuff (and what's the gender-neutral synonym? personed? staffed?) is pointlessly expensive grandstanding. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 17:32:30 PST 2004

22842 [lbo-talk] British tundra? -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - January 25, 2004 Global warming will plunge Britain into new ice age 'within decades' By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age within our lifetime by global warming, new research suggests. A study, which is being taken seriously by top government scientists, has uncovered a change "of remarkable amplitude" in the circulation of the waters of the North Atlantic. Similar events in pre-history are known to have caused sudd ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 17:28:31 PST 2004

22843 [lbo-talk] NASA's hype-filled space -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >There are many reasons to criticize and maintain a >cool distance from the space program. Robotic probes >however, are undeniably excellent achievements and not >wholly unworthy of the excitement they generate. No need to resort to litotes - they're damned cool. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 17:24:36 PST 2004

22844 [lbo-talk] RE: NASA -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Jon wrote: > >"Most of these NASA people strike me as the kind of amateur >astronomer/sci-fi fans we've all run across in high school -- drunk >on the romance of space -- who have never really grown up. >Incredible how excited they get about the exploits of their cute >little robots." > >Not just that, but in terms of the American mythology, space becomes >THE NEW FRONTIER. So long as there is one, Americans think there's >hope. Tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 17:15:31 PST 2004

22845 [lbo-talk] World Economic Forum Weeps Bitter Tears For Lost -- rank: 1000

jjlassen at chinastudygroup.org wrote: >But seriosly, outsourcing methinks is just one manifestation of an ongoing >trend to turn us into machines. And when'd that start? 1830? 1730? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 16:36:32 PST 2004