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22966 [lbo-talk] CFP: Punk and Hardcore -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:43:35 -0800 (PST) From: benholtzman at riseup.net To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies" <cultstud-l at lists.acomp.usf.edu> Punk and Hardcore: Contemporary Approaches Edited by: Emilie Hardman (Department of Sociology, Brandeis University) Ben Holtzman (Independent Scholar/Documentary Filmmaker) Alan O’Connor (Cultural Studies Program, Trent University, Canada) The focus of this edited book is the contemporary punk and hardcore scenes. ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 14:46:55 PST 2004

22967 [lbo-talk] "pretty darn happy" -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >How much of this money actually represents a hidden subsidy to the >DVD and consumer electronics industry? ;-) It's more a subsidy to Wall Street. Give a millionaire a $50k tax cut, and s/he's likely to buy some stocks! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 14:39:40 PST 2004

22968 [lbo-talk] optimism -- rank: 1000

"I'm really optimistic about the future of our nation's economy. This economy is strong, and it is getting stronger," Bush said in remarks to women small business owners at the US Commerce Department (news - web sites) after the government reported that the US economy generated just 1,000 jobs in December.

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 14:36:02 PST 2004

22969 [lbo-talk] GS on profits -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs economics writes: >* Since the recession ended in late 2001, aggregate US profit margins >have risen to their highest level in postwar history. This surge partly >reflects lower interest rates, lower taxes, and a weaker dollar. But the >most important factor is that firms, not workers, have captured almost all >of the recent productivity gains. >* The key driver of margins is the gap between productivity and real >wage growth. We expect this gap to remain po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 9 13:41:03 PST 2004

22970 [lbo-talk] contingent faculty in U.S. -- rank: 1000

[from the AAUP via another list] From: John Curtis Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:17 PM Colleagues, On November 18 I sent around compiled figures for the percentage of faculty on contingent appointments for fall 1998. Less than a week after that, the US Dept. of Education released a new set of tabulations for 2001. Here are the revised figures: For Fall 2001 (latest available from US Dept. of Education) Full-Time Tenured Faculty 278,825 (25.0%) Full-Time Tenure-Track (probation ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 12:15:36 PST 2004

22971 [lbo-talk] factoid -- rank: 1000

In the last three months of 2003, Canada created 173,000 new jobs; the U.S., with a workforce eight times as large, created just 144,000. If we had done as well as our northern neighbor last month, we'd have added 443,000 jobs (instead of 1,000). Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 12:01:13 PST 2004

22972 [lbo-talk] Whither AEA? -- rank: 1000

Is academic economics, at least as practiced in the U.S., of much relevance or interest to anyone outside the profession? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 11:55:10 PST 2004

22973 [lbo-talk] Dean: candidate of the far left -- rank: 1000

<http://www.michaelberube.com/> Jan 08, 2004 It's not just GOP lies and nonsense- Dean really is the candidate of the far left! After seeing that "Club for Growth" attack ad on Howard Dean, I began to wonder: am I living in a right-wingnut fantasy world where George Bush is a "compassionate conservative" and liberal-centrists like Dean are part of a "left-wing freak show"? Then I came across the following news item, and I realized, no, the Club for Growth has ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 11:26:54 PST 2004

22974 [lbo-talk] "pretty darn happy" -- rank: 1000

[from an AP story] "When everybody saw those tax refunds showing up in their mail boxes in the summer, they rushed out to spend them ... and people are still pretty darn happy," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York.

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 10:05:14 PST 2004

22975 [lbo-talk] Madge, Wes, and the Kaballa -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - January 9, 2004 Lowdown Lloyd Grove A matter of faith for Clark What's going on with Wesley Clark, Madonna and the Kabbala? And should the Democratic presidential candidate beware of falling in with a cult? Self-styled "cult buster" Rick Ross yesterday raised these concerns in an interview about the Kabbalah Centre, which puts a New Age gloss on the study of a mystical Hebrew text known as the Zohar. Last month, in a speech to Florida Democrats, the retired four-s ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 09:25:07 PST 2004

22976 [lbo-talk] students as pollsters -- rank: 1000

[via the AAPOR list] Students falsified Peterson survey By Garth Stapley and John Coté The Modesto Bee Published 01/09/04 05:50:19 Several university students said Thursday that they fabricated survey results that factored into a judge's decision to move Scott Peterson's capital murder trial out of Modesto. SNIP "We falsified the info," said a 20-year-old criminal justice student at California State University, Stanislaus. "The stuff we submitted wasn't true." He referred to ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 09:02:59 PST 2004

22977 [lbo-talk] Wall Street "thinking" -- rank: 1000

Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed Hyman, who makes millions a year pumping out mediocre punditry and managing other people's money, wrote in today's daily report: "Judging by employment in Canada, the 'US jobless recovery' story may be an exaggeration. Canadian employment in Dec was up the US equivalent of 530,000..." Actually, the US equivalent would have been 443,000, but how about that for reasoning - the U.S. story may be an exaggeration because things are different in Canada. W ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 09:01:16 PST 2004

22978 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >So is it safe that there is no measure of underemployment? Underemployment is impossible to define. Is a violinist working as a cabdriver underemployed? Maybe, but what if s/he's a crappy violinist? > Like all of these people who worked retail during the Christmas >season and are out of work right now? My sister works for department >store chain. She's technically employed by the store right now, but >they don't give her any hours after the holidays, except for sto ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 08:41:39 PST 2004

22979 [lbo-talk] Clark launches fashion offensive -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[No, this isn't from The Onion but from today's NY Times.] > >Seeking Women's Votes > >Gen. Wesley K. Clark has replaced his navy blue suit with an argyle >sweater in an attempt to increase his support among women. I hear Dean has moved to a larger collar size so it doesn't look so much like his neck is bulging angrily out of his shirt. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 08:24:07 PST 2004

22980 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

This morning's U.S. employment report showed a gain of 1,000 jobs in December, which sucks. Earlier estimates for October and November job growth were also marked down. Hourly earnings continued to be weak. The unemployment rate fell, but mainly because people seem to have dropped out of the labor force. I haven't torn apart the numbers yet, but on first glance, if there's any hidden strength below the headlines, it's very well hidden. December was the 25th month of an alleged recovery, but not ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 05:54:03 PST 2004