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23926 [lbo-talk] Wimps on LBO -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Nathan Newman asks: > >> Geez-- how many times on LBO have people railed >> against "labor bureaucrats"? > >When I hear someone talking about "the labor bureaucracy," I reach >for my icepick. "It's not fair to call it a bureaucracy - bureaucracies are effective." - Bob Fitch

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 16:10:07 PDT 2004

23927 [lbo-talk] Sharon: No More Mr. Nice Guy -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Sharon Threatens 'Much Harsher' Reprisals My god. We've only known the kinder, gentler Sharon? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 14:09:51 PDT 2004

23928 [lbo-talk] cultural notes -- rank: 1000

[from my Yale Class of '75 listserv] Last summer for the Family Talent Show, my six-foot-five cousin C____ came out in a pink tutu and a fairy wand, with a sash that said "France", and danced a ballet with Saddam Hussein and his sister Allie as an Arab terrorist in a black chador ("Chemical Allie"), before being run off by a bunch of small children dressed as American special forces.

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 13:17:20 PDT 2004

23929 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Greenpepper Call for Contributors: Life Beyond the Market -- rank: 1000

please distribute :: please distribute :: please distribute :: Greenpepper Magazine :: Life Beyond the Market Issue :: Call for Contributors :: GREENPEPPER is an Amsterdam-based environmental and social justice magazine focusing on direct and autonomist action. To coincide with the Life After Capitalism conference to be held in New York City in August 2004 the theme one of the upcoming issues of the magazine is LIFE BEYOND THE MARKET. GREENPEPPER is currently looking for contributions for the LI ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 11:48:48 PDT 2004

23930 [lbo-talk] Fwd: lbo-talk post from schneida at seiu.org requires approval -- rank: 1000

[I think I may have hit the wrong button so this didn't get approved. If I did, and it's duplicated, sorry.] Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:48:46 -0400 From: "Anders Schneiderman" <SCHNEIDA at seiu.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>, <nathanne at nathannewman.org> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Wimps on LBO >>> nathanne at nathannewman.org 4/27/2004 8:40:53 AM >>> > Geez-- how many times on LBO have people railed against "labor > bureaucrats" ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 10:13:14 PDT 2004

23931 [lbo-talk] Talk Left, Walk Right (The One-Party System in Various Guises) -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >Very interesting, although I disagree with the assumption that >populist/keynesian/welfarist programs --- essentially ameliorative and aimed >at damping down class conflict --- should be seen as more left/progressive >than neoliberalism. Why? Could you expand on that? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 09:42:32 PDT 2004

23932 [lbo-talk] Jon Stewart too comfy with Henry the K -- rank: 1000

[Kurt Andersen interviews Lizz Winstead <http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/2004/05/04_100.html>] KA: Speaking of The Daily Show, I'm always impressed by how comfortably Jon Stewart interviews Kissinger or even Richard Perle. LW: Jon's tremendous. I feel, though, when you are interviewing a Richard Perle or a Kissinger, if you give them a pass, then you become what you are satirizing. You have a war criminal sitting on your couch-to just let him be a war criminal sitting on your couch mean ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 09:30:32 PDT 2004

23933 [lbo-talk] great moments in legal prose -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/> Lizzie Grubman: Court's In Session You thought the trauma was over for PR queen Lizzie Grubman? Nope: the real trouble has yet to be run down and backed over. The first of two lawsuits, brought by Scott Conlon, a Suffolk County school teacher, is looking for $21 mil in damages. The suit charges that not only was our little Lizzie drinking, but she had consumed "illegal drugs" in the eight hours previous to the incident. Ah, how the lawyers must have cackl ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 09:25:07 PDT 2004

23934 [lbo-talk] turbulence at Air America -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - April 27, 2004 2 top Air America execs leave choppy network By John Cook Tribune staff reporter In the latest development in what has become a chaotic inaugural month, Air America Radio is losing two of its top executives, including the network's co-founder. Mark Walsh, the former AOL executive and Democratic National Committee operative who announced the network's launch to much fanfare five months ago, said Monday that he has stepped down as chief executive officer. Separatel ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 09:20:12 PDT 2004

23935 [lbo-talk] Bush ratings rise; Vietnam parallel rejected -- rank: 1000

DeborahSRogers wrote: >Apologies if this has been posted before, but the premise that 70% of >those asked to be polled refused remains an interesting caveat to the >poll results thus far. > > - Deb > > October 2003 >The Public Opinion Polling Fraud >from Z Magazine <http://www.Zmag.org> >by Marc Sapir and Mickey Huff >http://www.retropoll.org/polling_fraud_z-mag.htm Sapir himself uses some pretty questionable techniques in his Retropoll. I think we went o ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 07:34:06 PDT 2004

23936 [lbo-talk] U.S. opinion on Iraq: "uh, whatever" -- rank: 1000

April 27, 2004 Measuring a "Permissive Consensus" About Iraq by David W. Moore, Senior Gallup Poll Editor Two recent polls have attempted to measure the public's willingness to send more troops to Iraq. An April 15-18 ABC News/Washington Post poll asked whether Americans would support increasing the number of U.S. military forces in Iraq. A majority, 54%, said they would, while 44% said they would not. Would you support or oppose increasing the number of U.S. military forces in Iraq? N ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 07:11:26 PDT 2004

23937 [lbo-talk] SF Chron reprints 33-yr old column -- rank: 1000

[Sunday's SF Chron reprinted this 1971 column without explanation.] San Francisco Chronicle - April 25, 2004 TO ROOT AGAINST YOUR COUNTRY Arthur Hoppe The radio this morning said the Allied invasion of Laos had bogged down. Without thinking, I nodded and said, "Good." And having said it, I realized the bitter truth: Now I root against my own country. This is how far we have come in this hated and endless war. This is the nadir I have reached in this winter of my discontent. This is how ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 06:51:55 PDT 2004

23938 [lbo-talk] Bush ratings rise; Vietnam parallel rejected -- rank: 1000

Bush Ratings Rise Even as Iraq Concerns Continue Vietnam Parallel Rejected President Bush's approval ratings have improved over the month of April even as Americans continue to express strong concerns about Iraq and Bush's handling of the situation there. The new nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center finds 48% approving and 43% disapproving of Bush's overall job performance. This is better than the 43% rating the president received in early April, conducted in the days immediately followi ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 13:18:37 PDT 2004

23939 Fwd: FW: [lbo-talk] Franz Boas article in the March 8 New Yorker -- rank: 1000

>From mailman-bounces at lbo-talk.org Mon Apr 26 13:31:23 2004 Delivered-To: dhenwood at panix.com From: "Nick Ehrmann" <ehrmann at Princeton.EDU> To: <lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org> Subject: FW: [lbo-talk] Franz Boas article in the March 8 New Yorker Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:30:05 -0400 Hi Michael, I too thought the Boas piece was fantastic. I'm a grad student at Princeton, wanting to share it with colleagues. any chance you can forward me the PDF? Thanks, Nick

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 11:43:16 PDT 2004

23940 [lbo-talk] word choice at the NYT -- rank: 1000

The New Yorker - May 3, 2004 DEPT. OF STYLE WORD PROBLEM Among the many peculiarities of Times house style-such as the tradition, in the Book Review, that the word "odyssey" refer only to a journey that begins and ends in the same place-one of the more nettlesome has been the long-standing practice that writers are not supposed to call the Armenian genocide of 1915 a genocide. Reporters at the paper have used considerable ingenuity to avoid the word ("Turkish massacres of Armenian ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 09:19:49 PDT 2004